Letter 34055

Nikasil plating questions [Manitoba] 

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I am a small business owner that would be interested in possibly doing Nikasil plating for small engines. Can someone help me in finding out more, ie: what is involved, suppliers of the equipment, etc.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

Ed Tetreault
hobbyist - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nikasil is a trademark of Mahle Corporation for nickel silicon carbide plating, but there are suppliers and shops offering nickel silicon carbide plating under different tradenames too. It is nickel plating with occlusions of silicon carbide incorporated into the plating by doing the plating out of a slurry of nickel plating solution and silicon carbide particles. If you are already familiar with nickel plating, the particles are what makes it different. If you're not familiar with nickel plating you need to learn that first.

Plating is more about knowledge and experience than about equipment, so you might want to join the American Electroplaters Society (www.aesf.org), take a plating course from them or Kushner Plating School, and/or read a couple of books from our "must have" list.

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

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