Letter 121

Needs supplier of brass plating chemicals

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Can you recommend some supply house where I might obtain the chemicals mixes required for brass plating? I'm hoping to start up a very small operation to plate household hardware. Thank you,

David C. [last name deleted for privacy due to age of posting]
Northwestern University

Presumably you understand that there is a lot more to brass plating than sticking the part into a vat full of brass plating solution, and that most brass plating is cyanide based (which is very hazardous), and that nickel plating is usually required before the brass plating. But if you don't, we can expound.

But if you have no plating experience, you really need to start with some books on the subject. Please see our list of "must have" books about electroplating.

 
Ted Mooney, P.E.
Finishing.com Inc. - Brick, NJ

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