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Silver plating on titanium based alloys

Is it possible to carry out silver plating on Titanium based alloys?
If yes, then how?

Sudhir Gupta
Plating shop employee - Bangalore, Karnataka, India
September 17, 2009

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September , 2009

Hi, Sudhir. It is very difficult to electroplate onto titanium. I suspect that you will need to start with diffused nickel plating. If you search the site for "diffused nickel titanium", you should be off to a good start. Good luck.

Regards,

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

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First of two simultaneous responses --

One of the plating magazines had a long article by a plater from Boeing. I do not remember that much of it, but it had several cleaning steps and then a nickel strike followed by EN.
You might check with Pratt and Whitney as they have a method that works well in their standard practices.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
September 17, 2009

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Second of two simultaneous responses --

It should be possible to coat by sputtering. However one has to pay attention to details such as holes, etc.

H.R. Prabhakara - Consultant
Bangalore Plasmatek - Bangalore Karnataka India
September 18, 2009

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Hi,
Plating on titanium based material is not so difficult. I have presented a lot of articles here about it.

Regards

Anders Sundman
4th Generation Surface Engineering
Consultant - Arvika,
Sweden
September 30, 2009