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News Release from: Photofabrication Services | Subject: Photofabrication
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 March 2006
Plating switch cuts
the cost of screening
A potential customer approached Photofabrication Services with a requirement for a price-sensitive three-part screening can set
Each of the three parts was different in design and forming. One part was to be spot welded. The base metal was mild steel, which was to be hot tin dipped. After considerable thought and communication with with the potential customer, Photofabrication Services proposed changing the plating from hot tin to dull nickel.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 March 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This would then enable the company to etch the parts in sheet form, using retaining tabs and dull nickel plate the parts in sheet form, reducing the lead-time and cost of plating.
Photofabrication Services would then form the parts on fly presses.
Experience has shown that post-plating forming operations are can successfully be carried out with hard tooling on dull nickel.
Finally there was the requirement to spot weld the fence.
Spot welding is usually performed before plating as there is a commonly held belief that the plating will be compromised if spot welding is carried out after plating.
However, when spot welding dull-nickel-plated mild steel, the spot welding process creates a nickel iron alloy, which offers an improved corrosion resistance compared with that of iron alone.
As the environmental application of this part was neither hostile nor external, this was the perfect solution.
Photofabrication Services reduced costs by 31%.
Dull nickel is a much better finish than hot tin, and so ascetically the parts were far more pleasing and the lead-time was reduced.
Needless to say, the order was placed and the customer was delighted.
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