Where the
world gathers for metal finishing
Q&As since 1989


-----

How to sell surplus Rhodium, other plating electrolytes and equipment?

June 8, 2008

Dear all,

I'm from Romania and have a plating shop, mostely for Zn, Zn-Fe, Cr, Ni and Cu.
Due to some customer requests I established also a small precious metal plating line in 1liter scale 3 years ago. After all the demand was not high and the Rh and Au prices increased a lot, so I decided to stop that business 1 year ago. I sold the old Rh and Au electrolytes, hooks and racks to a refinery - they cheated me like hell, they paid only 25 Πper gram of rhodium and 11 Πfor Au.
Now my question, I have some unused electrolytes left, like 4 g Rhodium for rack plating, 2 g Rh for pen plating, 1.5 g Au rose (4-5N) for pen plating, around 3 g Au as PGC, 2 almost brand new beaker [beakers on eBay or Amazon] glass Platinodes, glassware, rectifier and so on.
In my eyes too good to dump it or to sell it to a refinery (pirates!).

Any idea what I can do with that things, so far it seems there is nobody in romania who can use that things....

Any help would be nice!

Best regards,

Dan P.
plating shop - Bucharest, Bucharest , ROMANIA

---

June 9, 2008

Hi, Dan. You can sell it on eBay for a commission. Good luck.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey