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<\/a>Advanced Plating Technologies offers plate to gauge or plate to dimension for critical applications within the bearing, ammunition, precision machine or fastener industries.\u00a0 Our engineering group welcomes the opportunity to work with design engineers to model the plating process to provide a realistic prediction of plating build across the surface of a part.\u00a0 Modeling of the plating build in this manner facilitates adjustment to as-machined size and tolerances for realistic as-plated part dimensions consistent with design requirements.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition, the various callouts for plating thicknesses are often misunderstood by designers.\u00a0 For example, a callout of \u201cminimum\u201d for a plating deposit requires in most cases that the plating thickness be no less than the specified amount on all surfaces of the part that can be touched by a 0.75\u201d sphere.\u00a0 This type of a callout can result in thicknesses exceeding five times the nominal amount on high-deposit regions of the part such as edges or corners.<\/p>\n Plating build up on threads is a common area that is misunderstood when specifying plating callouts.\u00a0 The pitch diameter of a threaded component will be increased (male threads) or decreased (female threads) according the Figure 1 shown below:<\/p>\n Figure 1:\u00a0 Formula for Thread Build on Plating Threads\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In most standard thread forms, the included angle is 60-degrees, which equates to a thread pitch increase or decrease of four times the nominal plating build.\u00a0 In applications where threads are near the end or corners of a component (such as a long fastener or threaded shaft), the realized plating thickness on lead-in threads can be considerably more than the nominal plating thickness which can result in a thread pitch change of 1 to 2 orders of magnitude (10 to 20 times) the nominal plating thickness.\u00a0 For this reason, discussions of functional surfaces and where plating thickness is inspected is of paramount concern in plating to gauge or dimension applications.<\/p>\n A wealth of information regarding plating thickness is available within the plating topics<\/a> section of this website.\u00a0 In addition, there are design guides and white papers specific to plating thickness within our Technical Library<\/a> that can aid designers in adjusting features of a product to maximize deposit uniformity.\u00a0 Our technical sales group welcomes the opportunity to discuss functional surfaces pertaining to the plated deposit.\u00a0 Often, the functional plating surface is separate from a critical part dimensional feature and the two can be properly balanced if they are clearly defined within the print.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The technical sales and engineering group at Advanced Plating Technologies welcomes the opportunity to discuss your specific plating to gauge or dimension application.\u00a0 Communication at the beginning of a project is invaluable in preventing costly rejects and ensuring that the product critical dimensional requirements and plating thickness requirements are met.<\/p>\n You can contact<\/a> a member of our technical sales group to discuss your specific application.\u00a0 If submitting a request for quote<\/a> from our website, a check box is provided for applications to designate products that have critical dimensional or plate-to-gauge requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plating to Gauge or Dimension Advanced Plating Technologies offers plate to gauge or plate to dimension for critical applications within…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3985,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7G6ce-1O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedplatingtech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPlating to Gauge or Dimension \u2013 Common Pitfalls<\/h2>\n
<\/a>The electrolytic plating process is often misunderstood by engineers when working to apply tolerances and pre\/post plate dimensions to a print.\u00a0 Electrolytic plating by its very nature deposits in a non-uniform manner; resulting in a thicker deposit on the ends or corners of the part verses the center.\u00a0 This phenomenon is accentuated in products that are long and narrow (such as rods or shafts) and can be extremely vexing for applications where threads or tight tolerances are located at the preferentially plated locations (high current regions) such as the ends of shafts or the edges of bearings.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPlating to Gauge or Dimension:\u00a0 Process Development Steps<\/h2>\n
<\/a>For applications where there are several critical-to-quality (CTQ) dimensions, Advanced Plating Technologies offers the ability to plate-to-gauge or final dimension of the part.\u00a0 This process generally involves the following steps:<\/p>\n\n
\nPlating to Gauge or Dimension \u2013 Contact APT\u2019s Technical Sales Group<\/h2>\n