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Prepping beryllium nickel for plating

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How do you plate beryllium nickel, what would be a good activator and how would you prep this metal

Ryan Smith
Plater - Coon Rapids, MN, USA

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Stay out of cyanide. Strike first in an acid solution, either copper sulfate or nickel. Be is insoluble in CN. Once you cover it with copper from an acid solution, then you can do anything.

Robert H Probert
Robert H Probert Technical Services

Garner, North Carolina

Editor's note:
   Mr. Probert is the
   author of

Aluminum How-To / Aluminio El Como

February 1, 2012 -- this entry appended to this thread by editor in lieu of spawning a duplicative thread

Q. Is it possible to plate over BeNi? What would the process be like? This is the first time I have ever seen a part come in as BeNi. I know BeNi consists of 97.3% Ni , 2.0% Be, 0.6% Ti, and 0.1% Al.

Thank You

Darius Shafiee
Chemical Analyst - Wilsonville, Oregon

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