Electroplaters

Electroplaters control plating processes and maintain solutions used to coat metal articles and other parts with non-ferrous metals.

What the job involves

• Selects metal stock for job requirements

• Heats metal in forges and furnaces and hammers, punches and cuts metal using hand tools and machine presses

• Tempers and hardens finished articles by quenching in oil or water baths or by cooling gradually in air

• Prepares electrolytic and silver solutions for electroforming and planting solution to the objects to be coated

• Sets and adjusts controls to regulate electric current and depositing of coating on objects