Letter 15079

Electroplating of audio tonearms etc

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Help - will you ladies and gents out there please help me - I would like to electroplate audio tonearms etc with Gold - (this is for my own personal use not commercial) preferably using old gold rings that I have worn "through" during the past 40 years in the heavy engineering industry - as I am no longer fit to work I have to keep the cost down as much as possible yet require a good standard finish - the thicker the better?

Thanking you in anticipation of your help,

Nigel J Dyne
- West Wales, United Kingdom

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Sorry, this won't prove practical. The first problem is that one reason gold is so valuable is that it won't easily dissolve or take part in chemical reactions. You can't plate gold out of solution until you dissolve it into solution. And you won't be able to dissolve your rings in any practical solvent (you definitely do not want to use cyanide or aqua regia in a non-professional environment).

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

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