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ELECTROPLATING.

PLANT FOR NEW PLYMOUTH. A MUCH-NEEDED ENTERPRISE. An industry that is sure to fill a longneeded want has been started in New Plymouth by Mr Joe JenUinson, carriage and motor painter, of Brougham Street, This new departure is the installing Of an up-to-date plant for electro, brass, copper and antique plating. v The plant iu question is what is known as the canning plant, designed and constructed by a well-known British firm and acknowledged to be one of the world's leading manufacturers of electro-plating plants. The various processes which the article to be treated is put through preparatory to the finishing touches are many.. In the first place a lathe is brought into requisition for -the purpose of removing scratches, rust or "faults" in the metal. Then the article is placed in a strong potash solution, which removes any trace of grease or foreign matter. Following upon this it receives a scouring with extremely fine ground pumice, after which it is rinsed in several solutions until every particle of grit or dirt is removed. Before receiving the coat of nickel, the surface of the metal is slightly roughened for the purpose of ensuring the plating getting a firm hold, thus preventing chipping or peeling off. It is not at this stage that the plating is done, but a deposit of copper is applied and later tne silver, nickel, brass or antique plating is applied. During the plating process, which is assisted by a powerful electric current, considerable experience and skill has to be brought into practice in the control of the various resistances, and so perfect is the plant that it can be manipulated to give the -liquid solution only the faintest semblance of electric current or increased to a high degree. By this control the very finest article can be plated as well as that of the heaviest and coarsest. There are innumerable articles which through the original plating having been worn off can be made equal to newall tarnished parts of motor cars, motor cycles, push bicycles, table forks and spoons, cake dishes, epcrgnes, salvers, teapots, jugs, motor 'amp reflectors, etc. Antique copper work, which by the way will be made a leading feature by the firm, will also be undertaken. The introduction of this new industry in New Plymouth by Mr. Jenkinson wiil undoubtedly receive hearty -support and his enterprise richly rewarded.

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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1919, Page 2

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396

ELECTROPLATING. Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1919, Page 2

ELECTROPLATING. Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1919, Page 2

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