Proposal on the state-of the art
Finishing rod guide.
What is plasma ion coating?
The plasma Ion coating is one of the thin-film coating techniques to form thin skin/film onto the surface of an object and can be performed in a vacuum chamber where various chemical gases-induced plasma interactions occur in about 10 Torr of ultra-high vacuum pressure.
Also, it is a kind of evaporating technique with ionizing coating material and gas to coat thin-film onto the surface of the object. After completion of the plasma coating process, the coated material/object has a definite enhancement in its abrasion resistance, toughness, hardness, thermal conductivity, coefficient of friction, anti-corrosiveness, and the other strengths.
Since the KIGAN’s plasma ion coating technique applied to a fishing rod for the first time in 1995, we have been steadily doing in our best in research and development to enhance its anti-corrosiveness and hardness against saltwater that guide frame of the fishing rod must need and to maintain semi-permanent surface color without fading.
With our long-experienced know-how and expertise, we have been producing and delivering further stable, beautifully colorful, much-enhanced fishing rod guides.
The fishing rod guide that the KIGAN’s plasma ion coating applied contains stainless steel as its core inside the plasma ion coating skin, and thereby its hardness is much stronger than ever. Its color is virtually semi-permanent, and its anti-corrosiveness is better than that of the titanium-based rod.
The Product Features
The hardness of the Thin-Film
The hardness of the plasma ion coated thin-film, itself, measured with Micro-Vickers attained 2,250 HV, which was about ten times stronger than that of stainless steel, while the stainless based on SUS304 is 150 to 170 HV.
Thin-Film Adhesion
The peeling-off test by attaching cellophane tape onto the ion-coated thin-film surface having scratches at intervals of 2 mm resulted in the absence of any peeling off the thin film of the mirror or the hair-line at all.
Sustainability Against External Impact
Using the DUBON impact generator, when dropping a one-kilogram-weight of the metal ball onto the rod from 50 cm heights, no mirror or hair-line was found by visual inspection.
Hardness Against Being Scratched
The test result using Clemen type tester to check hardness against being scratched was three times stronger in the hardness than the chemically coated one.
Abrasion Resistance
With SUGA abrasion resistance tester, the repeated test result of grinding 200 times with rubber eraser imposed 500g weight onto the 0.5㎛-thick, ion coated surface no separation occurred between the ion-coated skin and its core rod while chemically coated one was found separated in the test.
Thermal Endurance
After 48-hour heating the ion coated rod in temperature of 200℃, 300℃, and 400℃ respectively, visual inspection to check color fading on the rod resulted in no change or no fading on the golden color of the rod at 200℃.
Humidity Test
After being at room temperature of 50℃ and humidity of 98% indoor during 500 hrs, no color changed or faded at all.
Salinity Test
After immersing the rod grip into artificial liquid (PH4.5, ingredient: JIS LO0848), including the same ingredients as sweat during 8 hrs at room temperature, drying it out for 16 hrs. The test result based on 7-time repeating of the immersing and drying leaves no corrosion on the ion coated one while corrosion occurred on other metal-based ones.
How to keep it with care after use
Simple contamination :
due to dust or small salt granules (fingerprint) alone.
Serious contaminations with dust :
if leaving it without care and regular cleaning, thick sheet of dust envelop on the rod.
In case that some simple aliened, contaminated materials or oily substances land on the dust sheet, clean it with the following procedure.
If not remove contamination with the above method, proceed the following procedure.
(B)Not use solutions, including add ingredients. (Acetic add, Sulfuric acid, Caustic soda)
(C)Thinner is good to clean contamination, But not recommendable because it could remain some stains.