PLATING LINE BEING CONSTRUCTED

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Here is a chrome plating line that is currently being built for a customer.  Shown to the left are a series of pictures showing the decorative triple chrome plating line being up together.  The buffing area is located behind the glass windows on this first picture

The second picture shows a vent fan, which is one of two fans.  One fan sucks inward and the other one blows outward.  This keeps the air circulating at all times.  There is also two air condition systems to keep the hot plating room cooler.  The first tank is the Alkleen aluminum soak tank. The yellow steel tank is the Electroscrub tank.  The white tanks are rinse tanks.

Picture here is a drainage pit for the rinse water to drain into.  The rinse tanks drains via the white PVC pipes into that hole (the pit).  Inside the pit is a sump pump that pumps the rinse water into a large storage tank in the other room where the water is the treated and discharged.

Here are the tanks being wired with various voltage outlets for rectifiers, filter pumps, immersion heaters, and controllers.  The tanks are being lined up in the proper order.  Notice how well lit the room is.  This is very important because you need to see the part clearly while you are plating.  These tanks are (starting from the nearest one) TC-Chrome rinse, the gray tank is going to be a TC-Chrome tank, two Bright Nickel rinses, and Bright Nickel tank.

This is an Schedule 80 PVC air sparger tubing constructed to provide air agitation for the Bright Copper tank.  It will sit at the bottom of the Bright Copper tank once it is installed.  Air agitation is very vital in many chemical processes in plating and anodizing.  Check your manual for specifics in air sparger construction and what tanks to put them in..

Here are the other set of vent fan and air conditioner.  This fan vents air back outside while the fan on the other side of the room brings fresh are into the room.  Ventilation is very important in plating and anodizing.  It helps keep the room cooler and the air in there cleaner and safer for the tank operator.

This is the aluminum processing and prepping side of the plating line.  Most metals will be prepared on the right or far aisle, while aluminum will need to be ran separately on the near aisle.

Again here is a better view of the prep lines.  On the right, most metal, such as brass, steel, iron, bronze, copper, pot metal, and more are prepared to plate.  On the left, only aluminum is processed prior to plating.  All metals will end up in the same chrome, nickel, and copper plating tanks.

Hope you enjoyed our tour of this  under construction plating line.  If we can help you construct a plating, anodizing, electropolishing, barrel line, automated line, or any other metal  finishing line, please feel free to CONTACT US via this link or call us at 410-236-9856, seven days a week.  We offer full service from help with the constructing process, help with training your plater, to ongoing support, help with repairing electronics on the line, and finally lab support.

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