On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:38:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > So I need the silver cyanide, a small loop of silver wire I can place > around it for the sacrificial silver, and a few volts and amps to do > the plating. Both are made out of pure un-obtainium out here in the > hills of WV.
A quick google confirmed my rusty recollection that last century we tended to use silver nitrate. It's much less toxic, but turns the skin black wherever it touches. I found that wears off when the skin does. e.g: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=silver+plating+nitrate&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&safe=images IIRC, Ag goes well onto copper. It may go fine onto clean brass, I expect, but iron needed Cu on it first, I seem to recall. (If you want it to stay on. ;-) I think the cyanide solution was for gold plating, and we used a titanium anode, to avoid polluting the solution. (Which was consumed.) hth, Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
