All About Finishing Services

Finishing services are applied in the last phase of the segments to ensure that the last impact is reliable and impressive, especially for certain models that require a restorative aspect. Some designers need the models to have an impact equivalent to the plan, so the post-treatment finish is important to serve the customer. Decent Rapid specializes in rapid prototyping and rapid tooling services, we are pleased to provide finishing services for the items, such as anodizing, galvanizing, smoke cleaning, pad printing, painting, and so on … Warmly welcome to contact us if one needs to.

Anodizing

Anodizing is an electrochemical surface treatment for aluminum segments that have obtained an anodized film coverage, which has defensive, beautiful, and other capacity properties. When applying energy to aluminum, the parts become an anode for the cathode in a finished circuit, while being soaked in a corrosive electrolyte shower. The power and corrosive group cooperate to open the exterior of the surface and the design of precious stones, which build the thickness of the regular oxide layer. Anodizing is widely used in aluminum compounds, which improves erosion and wear clogs. Besides, it gives better adhesion for preliminary paints and pastes than exposed or untreated metals.

The shading anodizing duty cycle

Aluminum is suitable for anodizing and several shades are available. Due to surface adjustments and gemstone construction, the anodized surface is ideal for retaining colors in shading applications. Anodized aluminum surfaces provide shading reliability under bright light and a painted surface without a chip. See the image below that shows the shading anodizing work interaction.

Shading Selection

For shading determination, there are two types of standard shading code for reference: Pantone Code and RAL Code. From time to time, there will be shading distortion when the site matches the tone according to the code.

What is steam cleaning?

There are some famous techniques for cleaning plastics in our daily lives, similar to flame cleaning, smoke cleaning, mechanical cleaning of plastics, direct machining, and polishing. Smoke cleaning is a technique that uses smoke to clean plastics, which reduces the dislike of the surface or improves lucidity. This cleaning technique is used to obtain a non-simple optical quality finishing impact from plastic. For example, for focal points or windows that require light optical quality, smoke cleaning is the fastest and most ideal approach to achieve optimum frankness.

Prior Steps

Before cleaning, parts need to be sanded to eliminate burrs. At that point, the part or the surface of the parts that must be cleaned is presented with solid Weldon gas vapors. The dissolvable smoke liquefies the plastic at the atomic level. Besides, the smoke can dissipate after the cycle has ended. At this point, the external part of the parts is clear, smooth, and with an optical quality finish. Steam cleaning of parts. In the meantime, smoke cleaning is an extraordinary interaction that requires unusual experience with applications of specific compounds and devices. It also requires a clean, waste-free climate. Thus, this interaction requires an exceptional preparation of professionals for the job.