We've been looking into getting a Universal Testing Machine, and found that a company called TestResources has them for half of the base price of an Instron. No one I know has ever worked with them, so I feel a bit uneasy about it. Has anyone here used one or heard about them? Especially...
I have some plastic parts with an inadequate surface roughness. My colleague had the idea to get them plated and then electropolished, to achieve a really smooth finish. Has anyone encountered such a plating-polishing process before? I've only found info on plating or polishing separately, and...
