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

[Clint D]

Paul

In the links section is the Oldies1955 site which was created by the 
group owner, it goes thru all the basics of getting started on a small 
hobby status.
here is a link
<http://members.cox.net/oldies1955/electro/electro101.htm>

Hope this helps
Clint


Paul Maples wrote:
> 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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>> Paul
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>> I approved you right after you signed up
>> Clint
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