Red Deer, AB - Manufacturing Reciprocating Pumps -> Chrome Shop

Quinn’s Chrome plating is a product of the substantial advancements the hard chrome plating industry has made over the last decade. Our new plating methods and chemicals provide us with a harder, smoother, more corrosion resistant, and durable coating than previously available in the industry. This enables Quinn’s to run our barrels where chrome plated product have traditionally not performed well.

Quinn Chrome plated barrels are a high quality hexavalent hard chrome plate with significant improvements over other types of chrome plated barrels. Quinn’s uses a catalyzed chromic acid bath and a traveling anode to produce a 70 Rockwell C hardness chromium plate with a minimum thickness of 0.003”.

The process employs a proprietary high speed catalyst which has significant benefits over conventional or mixed catalyst chromic acid baths. This leading edge process provides a high microcrack density which means that microcracks are shorter and shallower and do not extend through to the substrate. Porosity is also reduced from 25-50% to less than 15%. These two factors provide for extended chrome life in corrosive conditions.

The high speed catalyst allows for higher current densities and higher temperatures at a higher plating speed. This gives a more uniform, defect free plate at a higher hardness than other processes.

Quinn’s keep even tighter parameters on chemistry ranges than the solution supplier recommends and employ a continuous electrolyzing technique and special filters to maintain solution purity. All barrels are specially honed, chemically cleaned, and pre-etched to ensure optimal bond line integrity. Solution chemistry and actual chrome plated samples are tested on a regular basis in accordance with Quinn’s ISO 9000 quality system to maintain a consistently high quality product.

Because chrome has a low coefficient of friction, Chrome plated barrels are recommended for high water cut wells and the high hardness make them ideal for extremely abrasive conditions. As well, the high surface lubricity means that gyp and other scales do not readily adhere to the chrome plated surface.