Hello, and welcome to another episode of Design on Demand.
I'm Matthew McMaster and you're watching Part 3 of our four part series
on Black Chrome Plating. Today Jayme and Ryan will be discussing some various
applications that black chrome can be used for,
as well as going over some various products that black chrome can be applied
to.
If you missed Part 1 or 2 of this series, I'd encourage you to watch those now.
Cool magic trick. Anyway,
let's join Jayme and Ryan for Part 3.
Jayme: So now we've talked about
some advantages on what low-temperature black chrome is all about.
What were some of the applications or the uses that would be good
for the product?
Ryan: You know, there are several kind of core applications
that
are great for the product for kind of the same reason.
Food, medical, and electronic assembly or semiconductor
are kind of three core verticals where you see this
product used with some frequency and it is largely because
of that, the ability to adhere to the underlying surface
even after repeated deflection. So if you're making a sensitive
product,
if you don't to have, you know, chrome flakes in your corn flakes for example,
you may want to consider low-temperature black chrome
as your preferred anti-corrosive
solution. For like a food grade application
it's going to see caustic washdown. If you're
building a sensitive electronic product,
obviously you don't want to introduce contaminants into
that type of environment, or medical,
where you're going to have, you know, obviously some type of cleaning process to
maintain sanitation.
Jayme: Well, and we like, you know, for medical is a good example,
we like the aesthetics of the
items too, right? I mean, we don't want to be in our hospital bed,
you know, or anywhere getting a test done and see the...
Ryan: Bunch of rust right next to you, right?
Jayme: Well you don't want to see a bunch of the rust but you also want to see that you,
you know, you actually don't want to notice.
Ryan: Exactly.
Jayme: The best things that you see are the ones you don't see
in a lot of applications, and then of course with the medical,
depending, you know, you're doing a test with syringes and
you're testing different things in petri dishes and so forth,
you need something that's not going to corrode, so.
Ryan: And then certainly the color is one of the attractive properties
about it. It can maintain its
resistance to corrosion and it's got a nice dark color that doesn't reflect light.
That can be useful if you're looking at camera positioning if you're doing
light testing of some sort
where you don't want to distort your potential readings
with a more reflective type surface, this is a great
option that's going to
not reflect light but also provide a,
robust
Jayme: It's clear that like a 52100 polished
steel is going to be almost as reflective as a mirror.
Ryan: Yeah, it's pretty bright stuff.
Jayme: If you start bouncing a laser around or something like that, you know, in your application, it certainly
would reflect highly, whereas something like this
probably would not.
Jayme: So now that we know a little bit about applications, we know a little bit about
the low-temperature black chrome, what kind of producst can we can we get this on
from Misumi?
Ryan: You can actually get this on a range of different
components that we manufacture. Obviously we mentioned linear shafts,
but we also, I think it's important to note,
we also plate post-machining, so if you want a wrench flat on your
your shaft for one reason or another to kind of tighten down,
or an OD thread, we're going to plate that entire surface.
It's not a pre-machined plate.
So a lot of people will go to,you know, their local machine shop that's got a
potentially a linear shaft chrome plated bar sitting on a shelf somewhere
that they'll machine up for them, but they're not going to
plate the machined surfaces after the plating is complete and thats
one of the real areas where we excel in terms of quality, is
how we both machine and then plate.
Jayme: That's great. That's a great advantage.
And so what about the linear bushings?
Ryan: Well, it really wouldn't make sense to have a
linear shaft that was protected from corrosion without also
similarly protecting your linear bearing. So you can actually get that
on our linear bearings as well, both housed and un-housed.
We have arranged of different flanges that you can potentially apply the
coating to.
Jayme: And how do we do that? Do we just,
do we coat just the outside of the bearing, or do we coat,
you know, the whole interior surface and everything?
Ryan: The whole thing well thing. Interior and exterior.
Jayme: That's super. You can't beat that so it so we get a shaft that's got the
low-temperature black chrome
all over it there, inside, and after all the
machining process is done and everything and you can put the bearing on there as
well.
Sounds like you'd be in very good shape from a round solution
perspective.
Ryan: Absolutely.
Jayme: So from a linear guide perspective,
or a miniature linear guide perspective,
we do something very similar that they do over on the round side.
The difference is, on a
linear guide we can do that up to, on any of the linear guides that we offer up
to
a thousand millimeters in length. And as you can see,
or maybe not so well from out there but, the
carriage or block is completely
coated with the low-temperature black chrome,
inside and out, and so that's going to make a,
including the holes, the mounting holes,
so you're not going to have any sort of corrosion issue at all,
going with the low temperature black chrome.
Ryan: That's really great. I've seen applications where you'll have liquid that
actually accumulates
in those holes, and they're typically the first portion of the rail
start corroding, and that's key.
Jayme: Well of course, Misumi would be
happy
for you to buy some hole plugs.
We do offer hole plugs if you don't want things
hanging out in your holes, but
otherwise, I mean,
if you don't buy the whole plugs, it's still plated, so you're good,
your covered either way.
Ryan: I mean, those hole plugs, they're great
and they're great for anti-corrosion, but all you need is
some maintenance guy to come in and pop them all out
and he doesn't save them, and you know,
it's great while they're in there but they certainly have the
ability to
be removed and discarded over time,
for one senseless reason or another.
Jayme: Plus, you know what, it's worth mentioning too that
the carriages have seals on the
bottom and the sides,
so that's going to help keep the debris and things like that out there,
but again if you want the protection, it's available, it's a choice.
We also offer ball and lead screws,
with the same black chrome plating option,
and including the support blocks.
I'm sure most folks know but the support blocks would be the things that mount at
the end of your ball screw assemblies,
and if you want to have the ball screw plated,
with the nut and everything on there, we can mount that down, plate
the support blocks, and you're completely plated up, everywhere.
Ryan: Absolutely.
Jayme: So you could use the ball screw to coincide with the round shaft
solution or the linear guide, and
all that's available with the black chrome. So, in addition,
Misumi has a very wide and
stout range of locating and
pivot pins, with lots of different machine options and all that, and
one the options that we're proud to offer with those
is the low temperature black chrome.
And as you can see on the bottom left hand side of the screen there,
one of the kind of hidden secret products that a lot of customers aren't aware
of that Misumi offers is a
high-precision stage. We have a lot of different configurations of this type of
stage,
either an X, an XY, even XYZ type stage,
and in almost every case, these stages
low-temperature black chrome is a plating choice.
And that's because a lot of people like to use very high precision stages
in a camera environment. You can set the camera on, you can make very small
minute adjustments, and of course you don't want the light reflecting if you
have a
shiny, you know, camera light
on you or on your thing that you're that you're trying to photograph,
you don't want the light bouncing around and messing up the
picture so you go with that low-temperature black chrome to keep the
reflection down.
Of course, we also offer
plating options on knobs, screws, handles, and even washers,
so lots of choices there and of course,
there's even more.
Ryan: Yeah, and certainly, if you're looking for something on our website and you don't see it
and you think, "Hey, this would be a great plating solution for..."
whatever product you're thinking of working with,
certainly shoot us an email, we're going to have email
addresses and contact information at the end of this presentation,
but we're happy to take a look at
any really industrial component you have that you'd like to use this plating system for.
Jayme: That's great.
Matthew: Thank you for joining us here at Design on Demand.
Join us tomorrow for Part 4, the final part of our four part series
on black chrome.
Jayme and Ryan will be discussing how to order our products,
stages and linear guides, as all as answering some very common questions about black
chrome.
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