Thanks, Don.. I realized my error when I noticed your remarks about their
products as I was looking at the Caswell site today.

That is an easy website to find information on, almost as if they tried to
make it easy for potential customers to find the correct products.

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WB
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metalworking projects
www.kwagmire.com/metal_proj.html


"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:36:15 -0500, "Wild_Bill"
wrote:

I think it's DoN that regularly applies electroplating to some of his
small
machined parts, so maybe there will be other comments regarding home shop
plating.

Don, not DoN. I plate with zinc, tin, copper and nickle using
materials from Caswell. There are two nickle processes, electrolytic
and electroless. Once you get your parts absolutely clean, electroless
nickle plating is about as hard as boiling an egg.

Plating onto zinc, "white metal" or aluminum requires special steps.
It can be done but I don't do it. Caswell does offer materials to do
this, as in plating die-cast white-metal auto trim parts with chrome
or nickel.

Caswell also offers chrome, but I don't mess with that either. Chromic
acid is nasty stuff that produces toxic fumes, while the chemicals I
use are quite benign.

www.caswellplating.com