Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-14 Thread Oz-in-DFW
On 7/14/2010 6:37 AM, N1BUG wrote: > JG wrote: > >> Good fishing !!, or is your memory that good:) >> >> I poked "Ham Radio magazine" into Google >> and found a few articles on silver plating >> in this list: >> http://webhome.idirect.com/~griffith/hr/hrind05.htm >> > > "Safe, Sensible Si

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-14 Thread N1BUG
JG wrote: > Good fishing !!, or is your memory that good:) > > I poked "Ham Radio magazine" into Google > and found a few articles on silver plating > in this list: > http://webhome.idirect.com/~griffith/hr/hrind05.htm "Safe, Sensible Silverplating" ... that rings a bell! That is the one I was

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-14 Thread JG
Paul N1BUG wrote.. There was an article in Ham Radio magazine describing a variation of this method of silver plating. It was in the mid 1980's. The method involves attaching the negative lead of the DC current source to the piece to be plated. The positive side is connected to a carbon rod with

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-14 Thread N1BUG
3HSW > > > > >From: cecil ferguson <mailto:ke4nna%40bellsouth.net>> > >To: Repeater Builder <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>> > >Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 7:08:36 AM > >Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy >

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-13 Thread cecil ferguson
med things may have changed and the process along with it.   Your thoughts are appreciated and I'll file this away for future use.  Thanks and 73 Gene --- On Mon, 7/12/10, George Henry wrote: From: George Henry Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy T

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-12 Thread George Henry
the batteries will speed things up & result in a thicker layer of silver. George, KA3HSW > >From: cecil ferguson >To: Repeater Builder >Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 7:08:36 AM >Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy > >  >A couple of years back, in a

[Repeater-Builder] Silver Plating - Cheap & Easy

2010-07-12 Thread cecil ferguson
A couple of years back, in an exchange with an engineer from Texas Instrument Germany, who is working in Freising, Barvaria, I was told of a cheap and easy silver plating procedure he uses on his duplexers.  He uses Photographic Developer (which has a really high level of 'free silver') and a si