[SEL] Nickel Plating .....small items at home.

[Paul Maples]

I saw that Clint and regretted sending the notice out.Some of the groups 
have instant approval and some I have subscribed to have actually taken a 
couple of days to get approved. I assume this is because the moderator does 
not monitor the site all of the time.

Clint I surfed through some of the links and pictures but did not find any 
instructions for building a simple basic system for nickel or chrome. Is 
there somewhere on the site that gives basic instructions as to what 
combinations of chemicals, their volumes needed, current requirements, anode 
and cathode bars needed, etc.,  to have a small plating system say in 
buckets or something similar. This info may be on your site and I just did 
not see it.

I worked for 35 years at a manufacturing plant and the plating guy and I 
were good friends as well as I worked on his plating tanks a lot and I know 
that on nickel plating the part went though a reverse current cleaning tank 
that I think had phosphoric acid in it, then through a rinse thank and then 
through a nickel bath tank that had electrodes on it. These were large 400 
gallons bath. I think I remember about five or six tanks in the process.

I just want a little small system for plating a few small parts for the 
beginning.

Thanks for all of the help.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clint D" <driggars at wildblue.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Nickel Plating .....small items at home.


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