Thanks for those links sean they have a lot of really good info in them!!!
As far as the clamp that I plated, I double checked it and at the absolute most it would be 7-8 sq" so you see my current is still "high". And yes it does plate very nicely with no burning at all. I could even plate higher with no problems if I wanted to...
I'd like to try it again with this new info but I am getting low on brightener and don't really want to waste it on experimenting. Do you know if the current brightener will work with the old solution? I asked Caswells tech line this days ago and still haven't heard back...