now to find thinner spacer magnets!! Man oh man those magnets get hot in a short burnt the tip of my thumb good pushing spacer off! Those AW 26500 had lots of power!!
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Dang did you guys see this on the Super T Manufacturing website?
Holy cow....It looks like a Nuclear Powered Tanning Bed 8-o
Thats our new Baby, a 10 gigawatt with flux capacitor for interstellar parts production!
Shockwave Update 02/08/13. Just spoke with the Rhodium Platers, they are working on cleaning the parts. They feel there is contamination from the Coolant/lburicant on the parts we just machined. They said they may have to go to more aggressive cleaning methods (not sure what that involves, but i assume they use some method of chemical bath to preclean the parts prior to the plating, some more volatile then others) and i gave them the go ahead to do that. I'll follow up and update you asap.
So a degreasant followed by their usual chemical prep should be all that is needed, right? Shouldn't be that complicated.
Unless that's the standard option and they've contacted David because the standard option didn't do the job. In which case the non-standard option might be more complicated. Even if the process isn't complicated or long-lasting, there's still the time it takes them
to actually plate the plungers to be considered. Hope it comes through without a hitch
i may be ignorant to the processes, but i can totally see why SuperT wants to do as much as possible IN house. Pretty crazy how many problems and setbacks they have had. Where i work, our suppliers bend over backwards to fulfill orders correctly and on time, i know we had a wood supplier who gave us some really bad timber, terrible condition, etc., they re-sent better wood, but then on the next shipment they gave us the wrong amount and some of it was really bad. We dropped them immediately and havent had any problems with our new wood supplier at all (As far as i know)
I honestly don't know as plating is one area i've never ventured into, not even in a hobbyist capacity. I did do some aluminum anodizing a few years back, but anodizing isn't a plating. I replied for them to go ahead with the more "aggressive" methods...lol.
Heres their email(s) from earlier if that lends any insight:
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To
Hi David,
My production manager sent me the following message regarding the plungers. Could you please see below and get back to me.
From: Doug
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 7:02 AM
To: Mandy R
Subject: Super T
Mandy,
We have tried all our standard cleaning processes and still see contamination inside the parts. We can continue cleaning, but need Super T to understand there will be an ever growing risk of damaging the parts as we use more aggressive techniques. Could you ask them for the cutting oil MSDS?
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Well that sounds like bad news, with the potential for more bad news (damage and needing to redo the parts and send back again) and that MSDS part I don't even understand what he's asking "them" for, whoever that is. Well, we'll stay tuned.
The MSDS is a Material Safety Data Sheet which i sent them. It lists the chemicals used in the cutting lubricant. In this case, Redline RC2000 which is just a common CNC coolant so i don't see the problem.
How much would you bet that they are lazy and want you to clean them before sending them in? 
What a Nightmare.... It must be the #13...can someone just give it to Silverrocks so this curse can end and we can get our Shockwaves?
Now that funny
A thought that crossed my mind too... the curse of the # 13On a serious note this is just one of those times in life that what can go wrong will go wrong.
But as the German saying goes... "Was lange währt wird endlich gut" " What takes long will turn out good"
Hope that translation is correct.
The plunger is a bored out on the inside. It looks like a stovetop hat.
The key to electroplating is preparation......the material to be plated must be pristine ..... Perfectly Clean....not a speck of any foreign substance.....so I get why they need to remove any machining oils as well
Patience Padawans
Patience Padawans
Now that funny
On a serious note this is just one of those times in life that what can go wrong will go wrong.
But as the German saying goes... "Was lange währt wird endlich gut" " What takes long will turn out good"
Hope that translation is correct.
I am German and never heard that saying, however, the translation is perfect
I have a saying though. Wer die dreizehn nicht ehrt ist die Shockwave nicht wert,
I am German and never heard that saying, however, the translation is perfect
Funny Silver
I'm worthy
Next hurdle to overcome - will the ShockWave fit into David's stock of black felt bags?
OH NOES!!
How will I protect my Shockwave?
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