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Overs Pianos sec@overspianos.com.au
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:40:02 +1000


>
>That's interesting.  I'm familiar (a little) with electroless 
>plating but I didn't know it was hardenable.  Can it be hardened 
>over aluminum as well as brass or other metals?   I assume a plating 
>shop would have the details.

Yes they should.

The as-plated hardness is just over 40 Rockwell from Memory. It can 
be hardened over any substrate as long as it keys OK . We bake the 
agraffes at 250 degrees C for five hours.

Ron O.
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