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Preparation and post-treatment steps in Silver Plating

2000

I would like too know how exactly -if possible- to clean a piece before making a silver plating for industrial activity. I would like to know too, if after having make a silver plating, we have to do a post treatment in order to have a better treatment.

Thanks a lot
Hubert.

Martin-Deideir hubert
CEA - France

2000

Hi, Mr. Hubert

How to clean the metal depends on what the metal is.

The Electroplating Engineering Handbook ⇦ this on eBay, AbeBooks, or Amazon [affil links] has detailed instructions for pretreating most any metal.

Silver tarnishes very readily, so you need to discourage the tarnishing with a product like Technic's Tarniban; there are other post treatments available. Good luck.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
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