[pianotech] Electroless Nickel Plating?

[Marc Lanthier / Piano Lanco]

Hi Joe,

I have quite a bit of experience with Electroless Nickel. The key is to
properly clean and activate your base metal. You might have adhesion
problems if you do these steps incorrectly. It says that you can throw it
down the sewer ???

Also, it is a very slow process. Do you want to plate for wear resistance or
corrosion resistance? 

Finally, it usually produces a dull gariny finish unless chemical levelers /
brighteners are added.

What do you want to plate?

Marc


PIANO LANCO
Marc Lanthier
514-770-7438
info at pianolanco.com
www.pianolanco.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Joe DeFazio
Sent: October-12-10 8:19 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Electroless Nickel Plating?

Hi all,

I just came upon a reference to electroless nickel plating on a luthier
site, and a kit that allows you to do your own plating:

http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/electroless.htm

Does anyone have any experience with this process or this kit?  Has anyone
done nickel plating of piano hardware this way (or some other reasonably
accessible way)?

Thanks,

Joe DeFazio
Pittsburgh



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