Letter 31077

How to make Silver Tinned Solid Copper Wire at home  

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Hi,

I am purchasing some 200' of 10 GA solid copper wire with silver plate for electrical application. I am paying a premium for the silver plate (about 1.85 / ft for 110 copper). I generally use small quantities at a time - 75 to 100 ft.

Is there a way that I can use a silver solder and "silver plate" the wire myself? I imagine a process similar to tinning copper wire.

I looked at a typical plumbing silver solder but I see that it has copper in it. Could this create copper oxide? I need the plate to prevent oxidation of surface copper. Silver is what has been recommended to me for use. Local plating shops have balked at plating such a small amount of material and few are set up to handle wire.

Thanks ahead for all replies!

Regards,

Bob Leyendecker
engineer - Austin, Texas

Dear Bob!

You can use simple immersion silvering solution (very thin silver layer,but very simple and cheap process).If oxidation is only problem maybe nickel plate is better solution.

Goran Budija
- Zagreb , Croatia

Sir

I want to establish a company for silver plating on copper wire. So I want to know how plate silver on copper wire echonomically.

Umesh Kumar
- Chandpur, Uttara Pradesh, India

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