Electroplating & Nickel Plating Factory Tour for Computer Parts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Electroplating is a complex process with a lot of toxins that have to be carefully filtered. The process is used heavily for computer parts, and this tour of a factory in Taiwan shows it.
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Electroplating is used in parts made all over the world and in many industries. Nickel is the most common, but gold-plating is also done in this factory (and other metals). This factory plates all kinds of products, including seat belt buckles (also heat treated for strength), pen clips and buttons, heatsink coldplates, computer case components, scuba diving gear, and more, but that's what we saw getting plated while visiting. The factory is located in northern Taiwan and is used by computer case maker Lian Li, who connected us with the factory for the tour and aided in translation. If you've ever wondered what electroplating, nickel-plating, or gold-plating is, this factory tour will give a better understanding of those processes.
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Anodizing factory tour: th-cam.com/video/Y8JG6RSUwEA/w-d-xo.html
You count multiple times the different ways to apply paint/ protective coating on parts.
How ever I think you didn't mention powder coating. Is it uncommon?
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@@kommander9638 good building system master steve
My father doesn't know much about computers, but he would love your Factory Tour series , I've seen him watch "how it's made" 12 hour marathons
"Zapped with electricity." The fancy high tech words are why I keep coming back for more GN.
As a comercial electrician I can confirm "zapped" is official industry jargon.
"The net is then raked out for visual inspection with a tool resembling ...a back scratcher"
Ah yea the good ole back scratcher.
I was lying in bed listening to this video. My eyes were closed and I was drifting off … then you said "Kay-shun (cation)" and my eyelids flew into orbit.
Just fyi, the word 'cation' is pronounced cat-EYE-on, not CAY-shun. Great video!
Saw that in another correction. Thank you for pointing that out so that we can correct it next time!
Let me just mute this telecon Im on and watch important stuff - GN Factor Tour!
Most meetings could've been an email anyway.
"Today on this episode of How it's Made with Steve Burke..."
Nova Prospekt looks great in HD.
Filtration is really only the separation of a solid and a fluid. It would be more correct to simply call the process water treatment. Filtration is certainly a part of that but so are sedimentation, precipitation and (probably) coagulation/flocculation.
Most of their filter equipment look similar to our effluent at work for out pretreatment. (Australian aluminium power coating place). the ploymer tank seems similar to our floc tank that an additive goes in to make solids sink.
I work in a factory, in the states, that does anodizing and electroplating and in our water treatment process we use floc and polymer interchangeably in reference to the same thing. Their setup in this video is a little more elaborate than ours but it is virtually the same exact process.
Your factory tour videos deserve much higher view counts. Fantastic content right here, lads.
I love these videos!!! Steve, I appreciate all your hard work.You guys keep me going in a time when nothing seems to be right.
Content as its finest. Thank you!
Good video as always! 🔥🔥👍
This was an amazing and informative video! great job!
This is awesome stuff guys! Seeing the manufacturing plants is inspiring.
Thanks GN. I love these types of video's
I feel like I am actually learning something. Thank you!
Awesome Video 👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻
Funny, Roman recently did a video on electroless plating
Weird, Ive watched all the other GN stuff but these factory tours are just now showing as suggested for me. Will be binging the factory stuff I've missed now!
I like the look of the employees' thermals. I'm still not going to buy a factory just to make my home rig.
I honestly love the work GN does.
Steve, this is actually quite inspiring! Most of the square footage in the factory is used for processing the water, yet I'm assuming they are quite profitable, despite this seeming inefficiency. Thanks for the video!
I wish these videos got more views, super insightful.
I really like this kind of videos!
Sorry to be that guy, but cation (positively charged ion) is pronounced "cat ion." It doesn't matter, but I'd want to know.
Yep, already saw that correction several times and it has been noted. Thank you!
That shot of the cityscape at 11:31 somehow feels both endearing and depressing...
So, @Gamers Nexus, do you think you could get some footage up of plating copper/most common metals onto aluminium?
Would be lovely if you could show people how difficult plating aluminium is.
Im seriously impressed by the filtering in the factory
Every time you see B roll of the team in the factory, Steve's always on his phone! "ok guys pay attention and write the script, i'll just read it for voice overs" LOL
He talks into it for note taking instead of look at a piece of paper all day he can look up and talk.
He also uses his phone for last minute translations if he doesn’t know a word for any questions.
loved it
I will never look at a humble expansion slot cover the same way again.
Saved by the bell :)
Suspicions about that "purification system" aside... Very cool... Thanks Steve. I know these take a lot of time, effort and resources.
I work in this industry. You’d have to see the solution before it goes into purification. Believe me. It works wonders
Steve how do you find time to monitor settled waste in an electroplating factory on the other side of the planet AND run a youtube channel?
And then the surface turned into nickel
Funniest shit I've ever seen
Look at all this work it took to nickel plate my old water block, yet idiot me could effortlessly corrode it all away with a little copper sulphate (biocide) added to the coolant. Been running pure distilled water ever since without issue.
Typically, what types of quality control methods of chemical analysis of the bath are used to optimise the process?
Still can't believe people don't watch this tier 1 content
Do they employ Thai workers since there are signs written in Thai language?
A lot of these factories employ people from all over the area. We've noticed many of them have Thai written on the signs, alongside Chinese and (sometimes) English.
foreign workers mostly from vietnam, philippine, indonesia and thailand.
I hear a lot about nanometers and EUV, but where does it come from? What company is supplying the foundries or INTEL with those technology? Maybe a factory tour of those?
11:10 that would be a hydraulic press filter, as you can see the hydraulic pump and reservoir underneath. It would be very impractical and quite dangerous to have pneumatic press operated at 2500psi
nice
I like these videos, I just can't help but think of that Simpsons episode where Bart's class visits the box factory every time.
*Looks around*
Mmm hmm
😂😂
that giant air compressor is prolly a hydraulic pump, having air at 175Bar seems very unlikely, hence when it leaks it will be a serious explosion
You need to do some videos on the performance of the RX 5700 range of cards the lack of reviews of these cards from reputable reviews is annoying. All I am finding from you is The Pulse and the Red Dragon. This video was insightful.
This way to fancy for me. Give a piece of rebar with a nail wielded to it and I'll plate anything you want
These are so Cool! How It's Made for Tech Enthusiasts!! Or Nerds! LOL!!
I think you've got the polarity of anode / cathode wrong. A-/an- is negative. Also, a quick way of memorizing the charge of CAT-ions is to transform them mentally into cute little feline ions, with happy cat faces, which are obviously purrfectly pawsitive. :3
how many Patreon bucks will it take to have Brooks Moore narrate one of these?
This is so cool to see this stuff. I live in Youngstown, Ohio, United States and my town before I was even born was know for making steel from these huge steel mills all across our main local river, since they didn't have the same system as described in the video I just watched, that river is the most polluted river EVER! It would probably take billions... if not TRILLIONS of dollars to get it clean again. One thing I don't understand is if they area at one point made so much money from these types of Mills then why couldn't they invest in filtration systems like this I just saw? It's not fair that I live in an area that doesn't have much of anything.
An awful lot of things in the world have low profit margins, and often it gets to be that if one person cleans up their act, other people will just ruin it. It takes laws or a rigorous commitment through the society.
Kayshins? You couldn't by chance mean cations?
Ah it seems so. I wasn't sure if this was something I'd never heard of. Anyway, nitpicking aside I've been loving the factory tour series.
now I feel bad throwing out all those expansion slot cover..
Those chemicals are nasty.. I use to work in a plating factory..
Electroplating is a complex process with a lot of toxins that have to be carefully filtered...YUP , i do this all day but for AGCO also the reason we get paid the most at our plant cause risk
I had my entire cases copper plated. Check em out if you wanna see.
*Dunks parts in acid*
*Drips acid all over the floor*
😊
#AskGN
Aside from the difference in labor costs, do you see any reason these things you cover in your factory tour series couldn’t be moved to being done primarily in the US?
I work in a factory that does anodizing and electroplating as part of our auto manufacturing process in Ohio. Not really, no. It can easily be done here but the reason it is likely done there is due to proximity of the manufacturing of the parts, assuming the electroplating isn't done at the factory making the parts themselves. Depending on where the parts are made and where they need to be shipped to after the plating process it is simply an issue of logistics and cost.
13:00 woah! Could you get stuff like that and do home electroplating or would the chemicals be too difficult / expensive to deal with?
You can do electroplating at home. The learning curve is of the "face first into brick wall"-type though.
I used to do this and more, but the Chinese do it too cheap for other companies in other nations to compete
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Early March... But not, it was 2019 March. Lol
Why wouldn't they do electroless? Oh wait.
FYI, the camera seems to be stepping down the exposure while it's filming in a lot of these factory tour videos, which is pretty distracting. Ex: 5:33 and 5:37
agreed and thanks for pointing it out. You can fix that in post, so I'm hoping they see this and do it for future videos.
You probably lost 5yrs+ life expectancy being in that factory with those chemicals.
Probably not, this place looks like it has a reasonable amount of safety practices. You don't get hurt just by being near them.
Cat - ion, like 🐈 👁 on
4 views, 6 comments and 10 likes, all in 45 seconds! Amazing!
Underline metal
I saw some contacts being plated too. Coating thickness is critical for those.
13:28 That seems dangerous, stuff might fall out the back of the truck. Also, that is a (from a European perspective) very tiny truck. Barely larger than the SUV on the right...
That's a lot of pollution to make things shiny.
Sodium hypo chlorite.
NaOCl. The last letter is L.
Should of left your car tire with the truck tire.
*should off
Who are these people？
Taiwannese
What is the writing on the wall？
Chinese
TIL my ex was an electroplating barrel. She rolled around with things inside her and had larger holes for less impedance for things moving in and out.
FYI cation is pronounced cat+ion lol. English is weird.
I love the look of gigabyte's 2080ti but that middle fan kills it's thermals. They should have made it a tiny bit thicker and used a whole fan or a little longer and used a whole fan.
Whole factory made of finest Chineseium, which is why everything is rusty, even Chinese plastic rusts.
1 view, 7 comments, 3 likes. I think youtube is drunk again
New around here? I see these comments on every single video I'm early to. TH-cam doesn't refresh views every second
Soooo it’s like a Potemkin factory? Lol
I bet that factory stinks
>American education
>Kations
>Kayshens
The current state of murrica
>cathode
>negative
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