EZ Plating Of Gun Parts

[BirdsThaWord]

I’m a few projects away from doing a few guns that will require a bit of nickel plating on some of the parts. Only because those parts are not stainless or aluminum, which I would normally just polish. So, over the last year or so, I’ve watched many a video on how to nickel, how to make the solution, how to prep the parts, etc. Tonight I watched this video and thought this guy did a very straight forward, yet condensed version of the process of application of various metals (nickel, copper, zinc) while being both informative and interesting, without a lot of useless side chatter. So, thought I’d share this:
https://youtu.be/G-PtnwtOR24?si=AuDZg7cOlgqEXZxU
Couple of other related vids I found to be informative in my quest: (Same dude in both of these)
https://youtu.be/8dF2nKDAtEg?si=tcqtLzgTklqVPK45
https://youtu.be/ju4uVhtkj2c?si=c4AqLwY3akboWhJ2
Hope this is useful to someone here. Of course, I’ll post up when I do this.

[Bawanna]

That's really cool. I had no idea a person could do that at home like that. May come a time when I try that my own self. Not sure on what but it'll come to me.

[BirdsThaWord]

That's really cool. I had no idea a person could do that at home like that. May come a time when I try that my own self. Not sure on what but it'll come to me.

It really does look straight forward the way those guys show it. My previous thoughts were that it required all kinds of equipment, with all kinds of controlled steps, with all kinds of chemicals. In a working capacity I had once visited a business that made various parts for the space and airplane industries. A huge part of their building housed their plating area. Must have been 20 different long stainless tanks with various mixes in them. All kinds of controllers, wiring etc made it look very complicated. They did a lot of anodizing as well, so I’m sure much of that was in there too.
I hope I get to beat you to the punch on this stuff, but either way, you and I can share our experience when we do. I’m going to make sure that whatever parts I do will first have the snot polished out of ‘em. Don’t want no snotty lookin parts!

[gnappi]

Cool video, though if I tried it I think I'd isolate the wire on the mason jars from the power! :-)

[BirdsThaWord]

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[dao]

As much as I'd like to believe I could follow the instructions, the thing I hated the most about Chemistry was the labs. I've never been good about step by step processes. Too impatient. I'm eager to see how it turns out for you Bird. And maybe you could be my goto guy for small parts in the future?

[FreeMe]

That's very cool - and useful. Thanks for posting.