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How to strip nickel (electroless) off steel parts?

Is there any way other than a cyanide based to strip nickel off of steel?

Thanks for any insight.

Bob Roth
plater - Cleveland, OHIO, USA
March 31, 2010

metalx is an advertiser and their B-9 works pretty well on electroless. The higher your phos content, the slower it will be. It helps if you strip anodically instead of by simple immersion. Their data sheet tells you how.

Jon Barrows, MSF, EHSSC
GOAD Company

Independence, Missouri

April 2, 2010

We use a product that we get from Atotech, it strips electroless off very easily without damaging the base metal

Evert Bosman
- South Africa
April 21, 2010

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