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Electroforming Bath operate at room temperature

January 24, 2009

My best regards to all plating collegues. I am using wax as a mandrel material to produce different products from silver electroforming bath which work at room temperature and I am succeeding. Now I want to prepare a gold electroforming bath which will work at temperature less than melting point of wax mandrel, i.e. 35 C . I woud like to be able to electroform to (800-1000)microns; bright finish is not necessary. Can any one help me ? What formulas, what the operating conditions pH value, and the type of anodes? No probleme if the formulas is for application of alloy or pure gold plating.
Thanks

Aaed Mohhy
Plating shop employee - Baghdad , Iraq
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January 28, 2009

I know very little about gold electroforming and am not going into details and formulas, but I must inform you the melting temperature of wax is not limited to 35oC. There are several waxes that go up to 50oC and more. So, donÂ't worry much about operating temperature.

Guillermo Marrufo
Monterrey, NL, Mexico

January 30, 2009

Conventional waxes used in electroplating have a metting point of 75-80C so electroforming solution do not need to operate at room temperature

Dayton Dailey
- Lake Zurich, Illinois, USA

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