Anoplex Online Metal Finishing Library

Your one-stop shop for metal finishing information.

This is the place to find the frequently cited Military, Federal, ASTM and ASM specifications for metal finishing processes listed with brief overviews of the various types, grades, classes and codes. This provides a quick reference for planners, estimators, engineers and buyers.

Anoplex has scanned most of the Military and Federal specifications covering metal finishing processes and put them online in html format. This allows you to use your browser’s search tools to find the paragraphs that cover your topic. For example, by searching for "corrosion" you can find all of the paragraphs dealing with corrosion testing, panel sizes, salt-spray specs, etc. The online specifications can be opened by pointing and clicking on the links is the overview tables. You can return to the main website pages from a specification page by using your browser’s back button or by clicking on a navigation tab.

Feel free to send an email to support@anoplex.com if you need help understanding a specification or finding a qualified supplier.

The Chemical Data table includes specifications for specific gravity, percent solute by weight, molar mass, and concentration of solute in both oz/gal and g/L. The table covers common plating chemicals including the most-used acids, bases and metal salts.

The Titration Table includes volumetric methods for plating baths and commercial chemistries. Here you will find detailed description of acid-base titrations used for analysis of anodizing baths, iodometric titrations used for analysis of passivation baths, and complexometric titrations used for analysis of nickel plating baths. Every step of these titrations is explained so that you can adapt them to your bath concentrations, sample sizes, and indicator molarity.

The Plating Calculators show up-to-the-minute spot prices for precious metals and make it easy for you to compute surface area, plating cost and plating time. The surface area calculator allows you to break complex surfaces into components and sum the areas. It takes a few minutes to learn how it works, but once you get it, you will be able to compute areas much more quickly than with paper and a calculator.