On Thursday 17 April 2008, Erik Christiansen wrote: >On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:38:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> So I need the silver cyanide, a small loop of silver wire I can place >> around it for the sacrificial silver, and a few volts and amps to do >> the plating. Both are made out of pure un-obtainium out here in the >> hills of WV. > >A quick google confirmed my rusty recollection that last century we >tended to use silver nitrate. It's much less toxic, but turns the skin >black wherever it touches. I found that wears off when the skin does. > >e.g: >http://www.google.com.au/search?q=silver+plating+nitrate&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&r >ls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&safe=images > >IIRC, Ag goes well onto copper. It may go fine onto clean brass, I expect, >but iron needed Cu on it first, I seem to recall. (If you want it to >stay on. ;-) > >I think the cyanide solution was for gold plating, and we used a >titanium anode, to avoid polluting the solution. (Which was consumed.) > The solution or the electrode? For either, I always assumed that the anode should be whatever metal was being plated in order to replenish the solution.
I've ordered the 4oz kit from Coswell & will see how that method works. Thanks Erik. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
