The blacking process changes the colour of metal items to black, which improves the visual appearance, providing uniformity and consistency.
The dipping plant spans across 16 metres with 7 separate dipping tanks (4 tanks with chemicals and 3 clean water rinse tanks). The slides are held in a dipping module which can accommodate up to 16 x 4.32 metre lengths of slide at one time. The dipping module is then picked up by the gantry, moved forwards and then lowered into each of the 7 tanks in turn.
The gantry is constructed from HepcoMotion’s HDS2 heavy duty linear guides which has a wide range of V bearings and linear components to handle the heaviest loads. Hepco’s HDS2 gantry is ideally suited to this application as it is a high capacity system with low maintenance features.
Read the full article in the April issue of DPA