Chromium Plating for Engineering Applications

This two-day course is intended for training of personnel working in "hard chrome" plating shops.  It has specific benefit for line workers and shop foremen, but can also be of great use to shop owners and managers of hard chromium plating facilities. 

Note: While it is not necessary to take any AESF course to be eligible to sit for the respective exam that could lead you to becoming a Master Surface Finisher (MSF), this course covers one of the optional subject areas for qualifying to obtain MSF certification.

Target Audience:The course is particularly useful to job shops, aerospace and airline plating operations. A background in both chemistry and metallurgy is provided, so that the students can better understand the problems involved in plating chromium onto a wide variety of substrates. Detailed information is provided on analytical control of the plating solutions, preparation, masking and polishing operations.  Clean Air Act compliance information is also covered, along with equipment design, including scrubbers and mesh pad systems.

Additional subjects to be covered include:

Hydrogen embrittlement

Cleaning/reverse etching

Principles of chromium plating

Post-plate finishing

Purifying plating solutions

Reversible rack plating

Wastewater treatment

Troubleshooting

Analysis of plating solutions

Equipment & equipment maintenance

Design of scrubbing/ventilation system

Surface preparation, grinding, polishing, shotpeening and repair of damaged areas