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-----Want our brass finish to be green-yellow
Q. I am looking for the procedure to get GREENISH look in brass plating finish. We need to do cyanide base electroplating on MS sheet. Once we electroplate our item with brass ,Generally we get yellowish finish. Please be advice if it is possible to have GREEN-YELLOW finish instead of YELLOW-GREEN FINISH of brass during electroplating or is there any other procedure.
Puneet KapoorPLATING - INDIA
April 22, 2010
by Hughes & Rowe
on Amazon or eBay
or AbeBooks
(affil link)
A. Buy a good book on patinas. Trying to include other ions into the plating solution will make it very difficult to control.
James Watts- Navarre, Florida
April 26, 2010
Q. I need greenish yellow finish by brass plating on zinc die cast surface.
Please guide me to get above finish.
trader - Tamilnadu, Chennai, India
June 29, 2013
A. Hi Utaman.
I use proprietary brass salts in my brass plating process. The TDS also recommends addition of ammonia
⇦ on
eBay or
Amazon [affil link] at a rate of 1 to 3 ml/ L. I've found that the lower range of ammonia addition gives the brass a somewhat greenish-yellow look and the higher range gives the brass a golden - yellow appearance. good luck.
- Penang, Malaysia
July 6, 2013
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