Hardness

Laser Gold plating hardness can exceed 180 on the Knoop scale when measured by the diamond-indenter method of ASTM-B-578-87. Laser Gold passes the 50-rub test of Mil-O-13830, and paragraph 3.8…

Tech Data – Plating on Plastics

…the engineering plastic the Epner plates require a fine bead blast to slightly roughen the surface to promote adhesion that will withstand an oven bake or the “cross-hatch tape test”…

The Laser Gold Story

…was a spectrophotometer with an integrating sphere and thus could measure the total reflective efficiency. Specular combined with diffuse. They were measuring at a wavelength of 700 nm, and the…

Automotive

…the Ford Motor Company. Thermal Foil Effectiveness Evaluation Efficiency Comparison Test Report – Ford Motor Company Thermal Response of Pyromeral Composite Artline Engineering OY Metropolia Motorsport Formula Engineering DiMora Motorcar…

Markets We Serve

…quantities or one-off special projects. Read More Artists and Sculpture Realizing a need in the art community for a plating company that welcomes their chance to contribute to their creativity…

Processes and Products

Specification Plating For more than 50 of its nearly 100 years of existence, Epner has been “pushing the envelope” of specification plating for the aerospace, optics, electronics, medical, and semi-conductor…

Tech Data – Gold

…required to deposit a thickness of 1 micro inch (1 millionth of an inch) _ at 100% cathode efficiency. Chemistry of Gold K Au (CN)² → K+ + Au (CN)²…

Specification Plating

For more than 50 of its nearly 100 years of existence, Epner has been “pushing the envelope” of specification plating for the aerospace, optics, electronics, medical, and semi-conductor industries. While…

RICHARD LIPPOLD

…of a living artist ever commission by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was loaned for the opening of the Air and Space Museum in Washington where, against walls of…

MMS Mission

…The completed stack ready for launch.     “The purpose of the Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission is to discover the fundamental processes that allow charged particle and wave energy emanating from…

Laser Gold Design Considerations

…micron to 100 microns or more. The heavier deposits have been used for single point diamond turning directly into the Laser Gold plated surface and for ruling diffraction gratings. The…

Thickness

Laser Gold plating can be applied from 0.1 micron to 100 microns or more. The heavier deposits have been used for single point diamond turning directly into the Laser Gold…

NIST Certificate

…1 to 2 fringes when tested with the Krypton yellow line at 587.1 nm. The uniformity of reflectance within a central 25 mm diameter area of the mirror is approximately…

Heavy Gold Plating

…a method to solve these plating problems when an usually thick deposit is required. For this reason, we have been commissioned by various companies to do unbelievably thick Gold Plating…