I have many components that get silver plated, per either AMS-2410 or AMS-2412. I have tried to do some microhardness testing to determine the hardness of the plating, but get values that are suprisingly low.
Anyone have a rough idea of how hard I should expect the plating to be?? Any info...
I currently work with a vacuum tempering furnace manufactured by a company called Japan Hayes, located in Japan. As I understand it there was a licensing agreement with C. I. Hayes of Rhode Island, but that C.I. Hayes has nothign to do with this company. I am interested if anyone else is...
I'm evaluating some different rust preventative oil and need to better understand the impact and effects of volatile organic content. I am concerned that products with a higher VOC content will provide less protection, due to the evaporation of the volatiles.
If a product has a higher VOC...
I have a requriement for maximum hardness of cold formed aisi 1010 rivets to be 60 HRB. Many of these rivets are very small, 0.020" diameter and 0.125" long. I am not able to consistenly get them to a hardness below 60 HRB.
I have looked at mateiral chemistry variation, tried...
