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Thanks for taking the time to help me with my problem yesterday with the nickel plating. As it turned out I wasn't having as much trouble as I thought I was.
As is normally the case, the problem was user error (ME) I geuss.
I was brush plating.
After we were off the phone and I was trying to plate agian it went better.
I hadn't been rising the pewter parts between copper plating and nickel plating. What I was getting looked more like a burnt copper than nickel plate. Some was very black while others were copperish black.
I had tried buffing a few of them, but it looked to me as if I was removing the copper and getting down to the base pewter. Close to the same color as nickel.
When I dropped a few blackend parts into a cup of water most of the black flaked right off leaving a pretty nice nickel plate! I then gold plated over that and it worked fine.
About 8 parts 1/2" x 1.5" x 1/8" dropped into a cup of well water produced a fine black powder dust in the bottom of the cup. Putting a lid on it and shaking the parts turned the water a dark gray like a paint primer. Parts came out fairly shiney nickle, and gold plated well.
I geuss what it boiled down too was I could not tell the difference bewteen burnt copper and black nickel! After running acrossed a fine soft wire wheel in a rotary tool I could not tell the difference between nickle and polished pewter!
I did have some problems though, not all the parts were well plated, probably because I hadn't been rinsing. I'll try again today.
I did get some very nice gold eagles now, and once I get some polish and shine them up I'll send a picture. They will look great on my Black computer case!
I'll be getting a couple gallons of distilled water to keep around for rinsing now!
Thanks agian
Chromo
Thanks for taking the time to help me with my problem yesterday with the nickel plating. As it turned out I wasn't having as much trouble as I thought I was.
As is normally the case, the problem was user error (ME) I geuss.
I was brush plating.
After we were off the phone and I was trying to plate agian it went better.
I hadn't been rising the pewter parts between copper plating and nickel plating. What I was getting looked more like a burnt copper than nickel plate. Some was very black while others were copperish black.
I had tried buffing a few of them, but it looked to me as if I was removing the copper and getting down to the base pewter. Close to the same color as nickel.
When I dropped a few blackend parts into a cup of water most of the black flaked right off leaving a pretty nice nickel plate! I then gold plated over that and it worked fine.
About 8 parts 1/2" x 1.5" x 1/8" dropped into a cup of well water produced a fine black powder dust in the bottom of the cup. Putting a lid on it and shaking the parts turned the water a dark gray like a paint primer. Parts came out fairly shiney nickle, and gold plated well.
I geuss what it boiled down too was I could not tell the difference bewteen burnt copper and black nickel! After running acrossed a fine soft wire wheel in a rotary tool I could not tell the difference between nickle and polished pewter!
I did have some problems though, not all the parts were well plated, probably because I hadn't been rinsing. I'll try again today.
I did get some very nice gold eagles now, and once I get some polish and shine them up I'll send a picture. They will look great on my Black computer case!
I'll be getting a couple gallons of distilled water to keep around for rinsing now!
Thanks agian
Chromo