Subject: And Home ElectroPLATING?

From: [email-masked] (Mark Fraser)
Date: 7 Jun 1996 18:12:13 GMT

I picked up a used copy of a Lindsay reprint on metal polishing and 
plating...  Original 1904 or so... Cyanide, HF, HCl, H2SO4, mixing,
gassing, boiling, etc..  enough to give me the creeps.  all I wanna
do is the odd clock dial or other small part, in silver and / or 
Brass etc.  

[I asked a week or so back, but here goes again...] is there an
improved [safer!] set of processes besides Silver Nitrate that one
can use these days?  I won't touch the procedures in the book...

thanks / mark

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From: [email-masked] (James Kirkpatrick)
Date: 8 Jun 96 16:55:06 MDT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Mark Fraser) writes:
|>I picked up a used copy of a Lindsay reprint on metal polishing and 
|>plating...  Original 1904 or so... Cyanide, HF, HCl, H2SO4, mixing,
|>gassing, boiling, etc..  enough to give me the creeps.  all I wanna
|>do is the odd clock dial or other small part, in silver and / or 
|>Brass etc.  
|>
|>[I asked a week or so back, but here goes again...] is there an
|>improved [safer!] set of processes besides Silver Nitrate that one
|>can use these days?  I won't touch the procedures in the book...

You might go read the FAQ, which has a section on anodizing which
in turn has several references to electroplating.  The vendor section
has a few pointers to electroplating suppliers (e.g. Caswell) and
a few books on electroplating (Electroplating for the Amateur, by L.
Warburton, and The Electroplater's Handbook, by C.W. Ammen, and
Metal Finishing - Guidebook and Directory).

See also:

       http://www.finishing.com
       http://www.peganet.com/dalmar/dalmarhm.html

The FAQ is available via anonymous ftp to plains.uwyo.edu in the metal
directory, and much of it is also at
http://plains.uwyo.edu/~metal

Jim

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From: [email-masked] (Mr Richard Stowell)
Date: 10 Jun 1996 01:35:55 GMT

Mark Fraser ([email-masked]) wrote:

: [I asked a week or so back, but here goes again...] is there an
: improved [safer!] set of processes besides Silver Nitrate that one
: can use these days?  I won't touch the procedures in the book...

Check the WEB site:
WWW.VIVANET.COM/~CASWELL/

This is a NY company that specializes in kits for home electroplating.