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Copper nickel electroplating onto aluminum

Is is possible to electroplate 70:30 Cu-Ni onto aluminum?

Ron Jenkins
- Archbald, Pennsylvania, USA
2005

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Ron,
I say yes it's depends of the pretreatment and the stress in nickel.

Regards,

Anders Sundman
4th Generation Surface Engineering
Consultant - Arvika,
Sweden
2005

Hi. Anders knows a lot of things that I don't know, but I still have to doubt that such an alloy can be plated practically.

But for experimental work there is an article by Vu Quang K; Chassaing E; Le Viet B; Celis J P; in Metal Finishing of Oct. 1985 (vol. 83) entitled "Electrodeposition of Copper Nickel Alloys" concerning plating copper-nickel alloys from a citrate bath; and David Lashmore has apparently done some work on it by using pulse plating, as have Tench D M and White J T.

A search utilizing the Metal Finishing Information Service CD-ROM will be productive.

If you can post your actual situation rather than an abstract proposition, we can probably answer more definitively. Good luck.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
September 2013