Filter BEFORE the Plating Tank

摘要

Conventional wisdom says that you filter a plating solution to keep contaminants from being included in the plated deposit. The simple fact is that you can't afford not to filter plating solutions. But that doesn' t mean that you should not look for ways to lessen the labor cost to service the filter, and to lower the costs of disposal of the media and replenishing solution loss. While there may be no way to eliminate plating-solution filters without causing problems, filtration of solutions that prepare parts for plating can prevent problems before they develop in the plating solution itself, and make the plating filters last longer. Because the filter media used in the plating tank has to remove the particulate and organic contamination from the plating solution, regardless of source, it's better to minimize or eliminate the amount of contamination being dragged down the cleaning line and into the plating solution.