Re: Chrome, gold plating, brush plating, vapor deposition

Posted by HH56 On 2016/1/23 18:52:15

I've used the Caswell plug and plate chrome kit on brass and it works fairly well. The parts do have to be immaculate though. The least bit of even skin oil and the chrome skips over so you wind up with a blotchy mess. I don't know if the gold kit is more involved or not.

Caswell has a couple of products that can be applied to plastic to make the surface conductive and supposedly allows "easy" electroplating over the plastic. Not many details on one product as to whether it is a transparent or opaque substance and the other sounds as if it might be a real suspended silver paint. Doubt either would work for our purposes but maybe worth experimenting. To buy a plastic product plus the plating kit with no assurance of success would be kinda expensive unless you could use the plating part to do some other small metal parts.