Provari 24K Gold Plating Tutorial

[igetcha]

hi all,

here is a tutorial / demonstration on how to perform 24K gold plating on a Provari, though the same principles apply to any other stainless steel item

Cheers,

Scott

 

[SCORPIUS]

Superb tutorial. Like the gold ends. Thanks for sharing.

 

[NatureBoy]

Cool, great video! Thanks for posting.

 

[VPJUNKIE510]

Bravo good show

 

[ScottinSoCal]

It looks great. You may find the gold layer starts to flake off after a few weeks/months of use, though. If you decide you want to do it again and make it last longer, a couple of tips:

-Deposit a few angstroms of nickel between the stainless and the gold. Nickel is a good intermediate layer for the two, and you'll get a longer lasting finish.
-Deposit a little thicker layer of gold on top of the nickel (just hold it in the solution longer).
-Use a separate tin for cleaning the ProVari. You dropped some dishwashing liquid into your gold plating solution, and that kind of contamination will lead to poor adhesion and/or pitting on the gold plate.

My company makes sensors for satellites (like the Hubble telescope) and we use a lot of gold plated hardware. We mandate a nickel layer under all gold plating, to increase the adhesion strength and make sure it doesn't flake off.

 

[igetcha]

Use a separate tin for cleaning the ProVari. You dropped some dishwashing liquid into your gold plating solution, and that kind of contamination will lead to poor adhesion and/or pitting on the gold plate

hi mate,

i do normally use a separate container for the cleaning, but i was lazy in the vid plus i didn't have a lot of room from the camera to have much control over what i was doing, lol

cheers

scott