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Plating shop needs to do Onsite Plating for customer

     

August 24, 2009

I Rajan Parekh, I have my own Plating Factory, in Mumbai India. Basicaly we do Plating on Jewellery based on Copper, Brass, Silver Articles. We first Clean and than do Acid Copper and then Do Gold Forming on the Article, all this is done in Our Workshop.Now we want to do it on Site of our Client, I have heard the Spray Metalisng Process of Gold and Silver kindly guide us in this More. What r the equipments and chemicals required.

Regards

Rajan Parekh
Electroplaters - Mumbai , India
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August 25, 2009

Hi, Rajan. Considering the kind of experience your people have, and the type of product you have been supplying, I think you should be investigating 'brush plating' rather than spray metallizing.

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October 5, 2009

Hi Ted
What is Brush Plating and what are the chemicals used in this process.

Regards

Rajan Parekh
- Mumbai, India


October 5, 2009

Hi, Rajan. Brush plating is sometimes called tampon plating, pen plating, selective plating, or electrochemical metallizing. You use a hand held anode that looks vaguely like an electric soldering iron. You cover the anode with cloth; the cloth both holds plating solution like a sponge, and keeps the anode from touching the work (the cathode). Then you brush the device along the surface of the area you wish to plate (although it requires acquired skill and I am not suggesting that it is drop-dead easy like painting).

The system does the same thing as tank plating but generally uses thicker and more concentrated electroplating solutions. The banner ad at the top right hand side of the page links to suppliers. For extensive information about the topic, please see Marv Rubinstein's "Electrochemical Metallizing". Good luck.

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Ted Mooney, P.E.
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