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Query on using copper-plating to prevent hardening on specific areas during the nitrifying process.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 154a\1\  scan0116
Date  22th November 1928
  
BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

X4469

RL/M22.11.28.

NITRIFYING HARDENING. X.4469 X.7060 X.7090

In the above process can parts be treated so that they do not harden, say by copper-plating?

The valve gear cam followers must not be hardened on the thread.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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