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CONTAMINATION FROM STAINLESS
STEEL ELECTRODES
As far as contaminating your chemicals
by using Stainless Steel electrodes, it simply is not a problem.
We provide TOP QUALITY STAINLESS STEEL
wands and plating pens. You can find images of them on our order blank. We give a lifetime
warranty (which does not cover loss) on them. If we could find a better material, we would
use it.
In a MOBILE / BRUSH TYPE SYSTEM, the
chemicals are always refreshed from the off site storage container into the on-site
chemical container. The constant introduction of fresh chemicals eliminates chemical
contamination, or damage to any piece you are gold plating.
After extremely extensive use, meaning
used for many hours each day, every day of every week, you may begin to see some wear in
the stainless steel electrode. However, even with this extremely extensive use, the
minimal change in properties of the stainless steel electrode over time, is insignificant
because you are constantly adding fresh chemicals.
If you were Gold Plating using a TANK
PLATING SYSTEM, you would probably still use STAINLESS STEEL electrodes. In the instance
of using stainless steel electrodes in your tank system you would pull the electrodes out
of the tanks (there are a minimum of 6 tanks in a typical operation) when you were not
plating.
The idea of a tank plating operation
opens up a totally different aspect. In a Tank Plating system, you are reusing the
chemicals time after time. In the instance, of tank platting the chemicals may accumulate
a wide assortment of irregularities of chemicals. In tank plating, when you move the item
being plated from one tank to another you have to deal with bringing in any DRAG OUT of
chemicals from one tank to another, or from an accumulation of impurities from one tank
to another.
This is regularly and frequently
checked by sending samples to a Laboratory for analysis. This is done on a daily basis by
tank platers all over the world.
Within a BRUSH TYPE GOLD PLATING SYSTEM
the chemicals are basically consumed in the Gold Plating process. The extremely small
amount of chemicals in the JOB SITE CONTAINERS makes contamination problems a far smaller
concern. And, in the unlikely event you do contaminate the chemicals in the JOB SITE
CONTAINERS, it would not contaminate your storage containers.
In any event, not enough iron comes out
of the stainless steel during any brush plating session, or sessions, to contaminate
anything. You are always adding more gold, and occasionally, you have to replace the
bootie (cloth electrode cover) so if there were any impurities that accumulated, you would
automatically remove them.
Since we offer a lifetime guarantee on
our Stainless Steel Electrodes, if our customers were wearing them out, we would be
replacing them all the time. We are not because it is not a problem.
Why would a person want to make a big
deal over stainless steel contamination when it is not a realistic problem in brush
plating? Probably because they are selling a different type of electrode and want to
benefit from creating a confusion.
As we have stated above, "we
provide TOP QUALITY STAINLESS STEEL wands and plating pens" You simply can not
imagine how difficult it is to drill STAINLESS STEEL ROD or to tap the holes in the rods.
However, you will see the quality of the piece as soon as you see one.
If a TITANIUM gold plating electrode
made for a better plating job in mobile / brush plating, we could easily get them for you.
However, no scientific evidence exists to show any contamination from quality materials,
such as we provide.
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Plating machine is best for you.
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