Mechanical Zinc Plating Equipment

Mechanical zinc plating is accomplished by tumbling small parts in a drum with zinc and proprietary chemicals.

Mechanical zinc plating equipment.

At chem plate industries we offer a wide range of mechanical plating processes including standard zinc plating and galvanizing silver plating zinc aluminum coatings tin coatings and our cp 2000 process which is a quad metal. Additionaly compared to hot dip galvanizing mechanical plating does not require threads to be chased after plating. Mechanical galvanization is the same process but applies to coatings that are thicker than 0 001 in 0 025 mm. Mechanical zinc plating and galvanizing systems offer the perfect solution when the potential for hydrogen embrittlement exists.

Steel of any hardness can be processed quickly and effectively offering the same high protection as conventional electroplated zinc deposits. And since it s added to the final stagnant rinse at low concentrations 1 to 8 by volume no additional equipment is required. Mechanical plating also known as peen plating mechanical deposition or impact plating is a plating process that imparts the coating by cold welding fine metal particles to a workpiece. About mechanical plating mechanical plating isan effective means of applying zinc tin or other ductile metals or mixtures of ductile metals to metal substrates usually steel in the mechanical plating process impact energy is transferred from a rotating open ended oblique barrel through glass beads resulting in the cold welding of fine metal dust particles to the substrate.

Small iron and steel parts usually limited in size to about 8 9 inches 200 300 mm and weighing less than one pound 0 5 kg are cleaned and flash coppercoated before loading into a plating barrel.