Low Current Density Nickel Plating

We think about that electroplating is like making PC boards or soldering surface-mount chips. Before you’ve carried out it, it looks as if quite a bit. Afterward, you possibly can’t keep in mind why it was such an enormous deal. [Kovancapol] needs to point out you how you can plate a mirror-finish nickel over your tools, and whereas it appears to be like like quite a bit to arrange, we’re guessing that it will get simple after you have every part collectively.

There is a little bit of chemical setup, as you would possibly count on with reagents like nickel sulfate and nickel chloride. Then there’s the glassware, nickel anodes, and an influence provide. As you possibly can see within the video, the outcomes look very good. We can’t assist however surprise what different makes use of you may need for this course of.

A conductive coating on a 3D print might be feasible. We aren’t certain soldering PCB traces can be value it since nickel will get arduous to solder because it oxidizes. You can mix and match plating for some fairly spectacular outcomes.