Paul N1BUG wrote.. There was an article in Ham Radio magazine describing a variation of this method of silver plating. It was in the mid 1980's. The method involves attaching the negative lead of the DC current source to the piece to be plated. The positive side is connected to a carbon rod with a sponge wrapped around it. The rod/sponge is dipped into the used fixer, then slowly wiped along the piece to be plated, where it deposits silver. It takes patience and a bit of practice but I silver plated the tank circuit in a 1 kW 2 meter amplifier and got a small (but worthwhile for what I was doing) improvement in efficiency and power output.
Good fishing !!, or is your memory that good:) I poked "Ham Radio magazine" into Google and found a few articles on silver plating in this list: http://webhome.idirect.com/~griffith/hr/hrind05.htm Now, here's the Million Dollar question.. where are these articles archived ?? 73 John/VK4JKL IRLP 6163
