Bright Plating Roughness: Important Basics Before Nickel Plating

Summary for bright plating roughness Discussion

For this bright plating roughness question, the thread excerpt only shows Yunus Sezgin asking what surface roughness is needed for a bright nickel-plated finish and whether Ra, Rz, Rq, or another parameter matters most. No answer text is included in the source provided, so there is no documented recommendation to summarize or attribute. The practical takeaway from the available thread is simply that the question is about choosing the right roughness metric and target before bright plating, but the source excerpt does not supply a technical answer or numeric guideline.