Subject: Re: Gold plating kit?

From: [email-masked] (Jonathan M. Elson)
Date: 25 Jun 1996 04:54:15 GMT

Michael P. Gangemi ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Can someone please direct me to the correct news gropup or hardware store?
: I need to gold plate a couple of small parts (aluminum) on my vintage
: guitar, and I would like to do it myself
: unless the process does not lend itself to "at home" proceedures.

Edmund Scientific sells a kit by Hunter Products for gold plating.  It is
expensive!  Hunter also has much cheaper kits for other metals.  To plate
gold onto aluminum, you will probably have to plate the aluminum with some
other metals first, following the 'electrochemical sequence' from Al to
Au.  To plate gold on copper, for example, you plate the copper first with
nickel, then the gold.