Nickel Plating - Step by step guide
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2022
- Welcome to my new channel! With this video, I hope to show you how you can electroplate at home for pennies. Well, maybe more than a few pennies but its super easy. This channel will ultimately be about watch restorations-complete restorations from scratch. I am brand new to horology so this will be a trip you can take with me.
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Best nickel plating tutorial on CZcams! Thanks heaps. I started fluffing around making viking axes and electro etching them. I was toying around with the idea of nickel plating them. Just to see how they'd look and will try now after watching this. I found all the nickel I needed on Ali express and I've also bought a 30v DC supply there. Great upload. Good luck with your channel. Cheers Gus
Wow thank you! I’m glad it helped you! I’d love to see one of those axes ❤️
Excellent tutorial. From a fellow plater with a identical setup. Keep up the good work.
Well done. Subscribed! Continue the good work.
Perfect. Finally! Subscribes and will watch regularly. Great work! Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I just finished buying everything to nickel plate. Your video was very helpful.
Excellent video thank you for posting it 👌👌👌
Thank you, your video really helped me. Thanks again
Thank you very much for this helpful video, i'm just starting my electroplating and this has helped my journey so much
Greetings … I would encourage you to keep making videos … you do a good job communicating and explaining processes … I know CZcams takes a lot of time but I think you can do well. Don’t give up! The 37 subs will turn into 1000 very quickly 😊
Whoa! Just one video got you 300ish sub's thats phenomenal IMO..I myself want to try out paint on style nickel plating on a bike frame to see what I can do...sadly,no one had done that on YT or atleast I cant find one.
Great video! I plan to follow this method on a larger scale for an antique Perfection kerosene heater I'm in the process of restoring. I'll have to do an initial copper plate before I can do nickel though so it'll be a longer process in my case.
nice how to !
cheers ben.
I need to try this
Lovely magic bubbles!
Looking forward to upcoming videos!
Thanks Prep! BTW you are my first subscriber!!! Thank you for the support all these years (HUGS)
@@restoringtime6078 My pleasure! Had to subscribe when I found the channel. =)
I have nickel plated and also zinc, etc. I understand why we need electrolytes but I have never really heard anyone explain why we use a mild acid as a base. Ideas? I have everything to create an alkaline bath for zinc next to try for shinier zinc finishes. Nickel is such a great finish!
Thanks for the video! I’m restoring a 50-year-old Schwinn 10 speed and the chrome is rough. I plan to de-chrome its parts and plate in nickel.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom I heard that you can add brighteners to the mix ?
How long did you leave the ring in the solution during the plating process? And how and where do you dispose of the spent solution?
My first attempts were a pair of steel end bells from a transformer - steel stampings with a depression in the middle, roughly 2.5
Inches by 3. They were blackened in manufacture but had become rust-pitted. Overnight in EvapoRust got rid of the rust and the blackening. I went over the outside with steel wool, degreased with Simple Green, and gave them each five minutes in half muriatic acid from a hardware store and half water. The first plate didn’t do all that well; there was a lot of cracking and flaking. The second time there was less of that but I think bubbles and positioning kept there from being even deposition. I’m not going to try to redo them but for the next two end bells that are larger (4-5/8 x 3-7/8 x 1-1/2”) I have a new container that is cube shaped and about 7-8” across so I can hang the end bell vertically on one side facing a pair of nickel strips on the other side.
How did you make out? I am having issues as you mentioned of uneven plating as only 60% of the part gets plated. I have not heated or agitated the solution yet.
Verry amaizing please can i ask about the temperture at what degree when we plating the ring plz
Greetings from a fellow photographer!
A brief word on the electricity stuff - the only really important thing is the current. Too low and the plating takes too long, and too high and the quality of the deposition is reduced. You adjust the voltage to get the current you desire, and the voltage is determined by the conductivity of the solution and the distance between the electrodes.
And I would be careful using nickel on wearables, I'd try some of the other much more people-friendly silver-ish metals.
We clean in my plate factory with hcl acid and nitric acids and i plate using zinc balls with ammonium chloride and sodium muriate potash great video boss
You seem like perfect person to ask this plating tech question?
📍If I want to plate Brass with Nickel, (after cleaning it, would a SURFACE PREP of say Battery Acid for 30-seconds) help before the Nickel bath process??
Much appreciated!!
Lee
Could you use a car battery charger or would that be to powerful thanks
From what I've gathered looking at commercial kits, the salt might be important. It looks like most of these commercial kits also have nickel chloride which will form from the salt in the mix. Either way, I've had good luck plating brass and steel so far with this DIY method.
Would it not be better to have the stirrer running through out the whole process?
How long did you leave the ring in to be plated and at what voltage?
If you want to plate nickel over iron or steel, do you have to plate it with copper first, or nickel will directly stick to iron?
It would be nice if you laid it out like a recipe. Tell us how long each step takes. How much salt to put in, what voltage to use at each step. As someone who is trying this for the first time, I am completely lost after watching four videos of doing this. It seems more like an art than a real process.
Please 🙏 full kemicel ditels.
What is your watch repair channel?
When you pull it out of the solution do you rinse it off and distilled water or just regular tap water? One video involved using some hydrochloric acid.
Would a car battery charger work as a power supply?
Fantastic vid..... Can you show us how to do 14 K gold plating for Seiko watch cases etc? Seiko aim for 80 microns in real old Marvel watches... So by now, I assume you have perfected your plating techniques, so show us your failures examples and how well you are doing now.... Yes, I am a time-served watchmaker amature "Horologist"...... I will be plating lots of things like harmonica reed plates and covers etc..... Cheers from England...
How long does the plating process take?
Will this work for black nickel plating too? And what do you need to add to it to make it black nickel?
I’m trying to find out a DIY “BLACK NICKEL” Solution or additive. Myself…
📍Caswell sells the entire Black Nickel Plating kit for like $250 on Amazon that I’ve actually viewed the process & results with CZcams content. It was amazing! However I don’t need enough of it to do a set of car bumpers. Just very small pieces 1/2” in size.
I'm thinking about nickel plating one of my guns. This is very informative thank you
I did this just like you and my solution is brown. What happened?
When i put salt its colour became yellow...and object became blure ..why brother.
White vinegar +salt
Because your Nickl strip is not pure
Wegmans!
V = IR. VI = P. If you prefer, I² x R = P. Resistance is found with R =V/I. Current with I = V/R.
Why is it the channels like i used to, pumps out great well explained content! Yet popular channels show, well cr.p... haha
You jabber too much..... nice info tho
How about nickel plating a gun slide that would be awesome