wrote:

On Friday, 26 January 2018 14:43:46 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 14:19:12 UTC, tabby wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 11:59:56 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 11:01:27 UTC, Fredxx wrote:

Most gold plating is a very thin layer,

Yes it's amazing how cheap gold foil can be having brought some gold
foil that I'm trying to stick to an electroscope !!!!

electroplating is many times thinner

Yes so should be even cheaper, as gold is used to eliminate tarnishing
of the connector a very thin layer is easily scratched so may not be
much use long term. So a good quality lead should have a reasonable
thick gold layer but I;ve no idea how much extar such a lead would cost
but I wouldn't have thought more than a couple of quid worth of gold.

ie you don't know.
I don't know either, but I suspect the process costs more than the
material cost.

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Roger Hayter