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Originally Posted by Ed_Dinning
Hi Catkins, was this a home plating plant or industrial?
If home, how easy was it to source the chemicals and what sort of power supply did you use?
Ed
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We bought 3 home plating kits from Classic Plating (
https://www.classic-plating.co.uk/). A bright nickel plating kit, a copper plating kit and a zinc plating kit. The kits come with a Variable Current Controller (just a bit of resistance wire) which you connect up to a 12v supply (e.g. car battery). However, it's very hard to control the plating current using this, so we used a bench power supply.
The first kit we got was the nickel kit which I used to plate the screening cans on my HMV 907. We were initially unsure about how successful the home kits would be, but based on this we got the extra kits to extend the finishes we could do. For general plating, zinc looks closer to the original finish than nickel (but the screening cans appear to have initially been nickel plated).