Nickel Plating - Step by step guide

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@gustavcarlsson6090 2 жыл бұрын

Best nickel plating tutorial on KZbin! Thanks heaps. I started fluffing around making viking axes and electro etching them. I was toying around with the idea of nickel plating them. Just to see how they'd look and will try now after watching this. I found all the nickel I needed on Ali express and I've also bought a 30v DC supply there. Great upload. Good luck with your channel. Cheers Gus

@restoringtime6078 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you! I’m glad it helped you! I’d love to see one of those axes ❤️

@larsfrandsen2501 9 ай бұрын

Perfect. Finally! Subscribes and will watch regularly. Great work! Thank you!

@LeoGodYT 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I just finished buying everything to nickel plate. Your video was very helpful.

@travisspradling3738 4 ай бұрын

Great clear video that explains the process. I love it!!!

@travisspradling3738 4 ай бұрын

Awww this is his only video… I’m sad now

@Mr_Ravee 10 ай бұрын

Whoa! Just one video got you 300ish sub's thats phenomenal IMO..I myself want to try out paint on style nickel plating on a bike frame to see what I can do...sadly,no one had done that on YT or atleast I cant find one.

@michaelcannon3172 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. From a fellow plater with a identical setup. Keep up the good work.

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 ай бұрын

Just stopping by curious about nickel plating. VERY well done video, spells it out perfectly for the DIYer, and is encouraging in that I will be committing to my channel startup. Your voice over of the steps is great, and it is well filmed. WHAT? Just looked, the only video; get on it, you have great potential, subbed anyway. I will be purchasing a stirring plate to make my own solution.

@patreilly4293 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! I’m restoring a 50-year-old Schwinn 10 speed and the chrome is rough. I plan to de-chrome its parts and plate in nickel.

@kennethboydsr3966 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your wisdom I heard that you can add brighteners to the mix ?

@Trent150 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings … I would encourage you to keep making videos … you do a good job communicating and explaining processes … I know KZbin takes a lot of time but I think you can do well. Don’t give up! The 37 subs will turn into 1000 very quickly 😊

@patflynnrealtor 2 ай бұрын

Hello, and thank you for the great video. I have an old doorknob set I'd like to have re-plated with nickel. Do you offer plating services to others? Thanks very much. - Pat

@JohnPublik 5 ай бұрын

When you pull it out of the solution do you rinse it off and distilled water or just regular tap water? One video involved using some hydrochloric acid.

@836dmar Жыл бұрын

I have nickel plated and also zinc, etc. I understand why we need electrolytes but I have never really heard anyone explain why we use a mild acid as a base. Ideas? I have everything to create an alkaline bath for zinc next to try for shinier zinc finishes. Nickel is such a great finish!

@neiladams9184 11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this helpful video, i'm just starting my electroplating and this has helped my journey so much

@gustavohenao9586 4 ай бұрын

Another suggestion, this time technical: clean the object to be nickel-plated with sulfuric acid if you have it available, or with vinegar, which I see you do have. Don't rely on your fingers being clean just because you used alcohol, as skin is always secreting oils.

@migueloliveras7508 Ай бұрын

How much time on the sulfuric acid? And full strength of sulfuric acid or I need to mix it?

@hubbsllc 9 ай бұрын

My first attempts were a pair of steel end bells from a transformer - steel stampings with a depression in the middle, roughly 2.5 Inches by 3. They were blackened in manufacture but had become rust-pitted. Overnight in EvapoRust got rid of the rust and the blackening. I went over the outside with steel wool, degreased with Simple Green, and gave them each five minutes in half muriatic acid from a hardware store and half water. The first plate didn’t do all that well; there was a lot of cracking and flaking. The second time there was less of that but I think bubbles and positioning kept there from being even deposition. I’m not going to try to redo them but for the next two end bells that are larger (4-5/8 x 3-7/8 x 1-1/2”) I have a new container that is cube shaped and about 7-8” across so I can hang the end bell vertically on one side facing a pair of nickel strips on the other side.

@bajaboyagd 5 ай бұрын

How did you make out? I am having issues as you mentioned of uneven plating as only 60% of the part gets plated. I have not heated or agitated the solution yet.

@philupdegrave731 7 ай бұрын

Would a car battery charger work as a power supply?

@Norrin20 5 ай бұрын

How long did you leave the ring in the solution during the plating process? And how and where do you dispose of the spent solution?

@zahershakwi9915 6 ай бұрын

Verry amaizing please can i ask about the temperture at what degree when we plating the ring plz

@CP-od7tr 6 ай бұрын

Well done. Subscribed! Continue the good work.

@EJ-ge4st 8 ай бұрын

Will this work for black nickel plating too? And what do you need to add to it to make it black nickel?

@Zen_Modeling 6 ай бұрын

I’m trying to find out a DIY “BLACK NICKEL” Solution or additive. Myself… 📍Caswell sells the entire Black Nickel Plating kit for like $250 on Amazon that I’ve actually viewed the process & results with KZbin content. It was amazing! However I don’t need enough of it to do a set of car bumpers. Just very small pieces 1/2” in size.

@vexicon 3 ай бұрын

@@Zen_Modeling Caswell makes a dry mix for black that's also part of their full kit. It runs about $100 for 1.5 gal of solution. There's also a formula on thr Reddit sub r/electroplating that has a DIY solution. I haven't tried it yet. 200g/L of nickel sulphate, 20g/L of zinc sulphate(for the black color), and 30g/L of sodium carbonate(creates sodium acetate when in contact with vinegar for a complexing agent and Ph buffer) and vinegar for the liquid in the solution.

@Zen_Modeling 3 ай бұрын

@@vexicon I actually purchased that 1.5 gallon mix (not dry btw more of a sludge) worked great. Now I’ve got 1.4 gallons left….

@NordicDan Жыл бұрын

Great video! I plan to follow this method on a larger scale for an antique Perfection kerosene heater I'm in the process of restoring. I'll have to do an initial copper plate before I can do nickel though so it'll be a longer process in my case.

@MarkAzzolino Жыл бұрын

Thank you, your video really helped me. Thanks again

@chongtak 9 ай бұрын

If you want to plate nickel over iron or steel, do you have to plate it with copper first, or nickel will directly stick to iron?

@BuildNStuff 10 ай бұрын

How long did you leave the ring in to be plated and at what voltage?

@zakhiks 11 ай бұрын

I'm thinking about nickel plating one of my guns. This is very informative thank you

@be007 Жыл бұрын

nice how to ! cheers ben.

@royalrevue23 9 ай бұрын

I need to try this

@Prepperian 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely magic bubbles! Looking forward to upcoming videos!

@restoringtime6078 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Prep! BTW you are my first subscriber!!! Thank you for the support all these years (HUGS)

@Prepperian 2 жыл бұрын

@@restoringtime6078 My pleasure! Had to subscribe when I found the channel. =)

@vc7128 10 ай бұрын

How long does the plating process take?

@chelsea1zola 2 жыл бұрын

Could you use a car battery charger or would that be to powerful thanks

@gadbois83 10 ай бұрын

We clean in my plate factory with hcl acid and nitric acids and i plate using zinc balls with ammonium chloride and sodium muriate potash great video boss

@Zen_Modeling 6 ай бұрын

You seem like perfect person to ask this plating tech question? 📍If I want to plate Brass with Nickel, (after cleaning it, would a SURFACE PREP of say Battery Acid for 30-seconds) help before the Nickel bath process?? Much appreciated!! Lee

@adroit786 3 ай бұрын

Hello, I follow your exact steps but my solution doesn't turn green, it turns brown, can u plz tell me what I did wrong

@paulb9769 5 ай бұрын

Would it not be better to have the stirrer running through out the whole process?

@Skhan-ql7iq Жыл бұрын

When i put salt its colour became yellow...and object became blure ..why brother. White vinegar +salt

@accipiternisus649 7 ай бұрын

Because your Nickl strip is not pure

@christmastavares8120 Жыл бұрын

What is your watch repair channel?

@richardsinclair9449 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic vid..... Can you show us how to do 14 K gold plating for Seiko watch cases etc? Seiko aim for 80 microns in real old Marvel watches... So by now, I assume you have perfected your plating techniques, so show us your failures examples and how well you are doing now.... Yes, I am a time-served watchmaker amature "Horologist"...... I will be plating lots of things like harmonica reed plates and covers etc..... Cheers from England...

@Miketz 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from a fellow photographer! A brief word on the electricity stuff - the only really important thing is the current. Too low and the plating takes too long, and too high and the quality of the deposition is reduced. You adjust the voltage to get the current you desire, and the voltage is determined by the conductivity of the solution and the distance between the electrodes. And I would be careful using nickel on wearables, I'd try some of the other much more people-friendly silver-ish metals.

@tunyhuny5 Жыл бұрын

I did this just like you and my solution is brown. What happened?

@niharaprashanth-is3dg Жыл бұрын

Please 🙏 full kemicel ditels.

@beat53chevy 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video thank you for posting it 👌👌👌

@BaoBao0923 3 ай бұрын

I’ve waited for 20 minutes and the solution still hasn’t turned green, I am putting through 1 amp and it is bubbling and all, I also bought “pure nickel” roll, am I impatient or what

@minigpracing3068 2 жыл бұрын

From what I've gathered looking at commercial kits, the salt might be important. It looks like most of these commercial kits also have nickel chloride which will form from the salt in the mix. Either way, I've had good luck plating brass and steel so far with this DIY method.

@gustavohenao9586 4 ай бұрын

"Thank you. The information is very good. Just a suggestion for you as a KZbinr, with all due respect. It was a bit difficult to listen to you for 18 minutes straight with your non-stop, fast-paced speaking style. I don't know if this is due to my being autistic or if others don't find it bothersome. But I think it would be possible to convey the same great information with fewer words and a more normal pace. In any case, thank you very much for the information and I've subscribed to your channel to stay tuned for more great tutorials like this one."

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 ай бұрын

I found that even though he had many words, very little of his dialogue was not information filled. I would also like to see more content from him.

@JoseGonzalez-ed4hq Ай бұрын

Thought u needed sodium hypophosphite for this ?

@JohnDaker_singer 5 ай бұрын

It would be nice if you laid it out like a recipe. Tell us how long each step takes. How much salt to put in, what voltage to use at each step. As someone who is trying this for the first time, I am completely lost after watching four videos of doing this. It seems more like an art than a real process.