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Electroplating nickel on aluminum

2004

Hi,

I want to electroplate the inner core of aluminum cylinder with nickel/chromium. Nickel plating is often done on iron. How is it possible to do this job on aluminum?

Please help Thank you,

Jaspreet Singh
Research Assistant - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

The best thing to do would be to simply send it to a plating shop which offers plating on aluminum, Mr. Singh. There are a number of ways to plate onto aluminum, including zincate followed by copper cyanide, zincate followed by electroless nickel, two-metal zincate-like immersion plating, an all tin proprietary process, and (it is said, although I've never been personally involved with it) phosphoric acid anodizing as a pretreatment for plating.

Not knowing your level of experience in electroplating, you may be hours away or months away from successfully plating this item if you do it in house.

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2003

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