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Re: Silver plating my R13

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-10-28 04:06

Silver can be successfully plated directly onto nickel plate as a nickel flash is usually applied as an undercoat for silver to be plated onto to give a nice flat surface (on a molecular level) for the silver to adhere to as copper is very rough in comparison.

Nickel plate is often applied very thinly (usually around 3 to 5 microns) due to its hardness which blunts cutting tools if applied too thickly. Some instruments had nickel plate applied to around 25 microns (which is the thickness good quality silver plate is applied to), but that makes key fitting very difficult when it comes to reaming out key barrels and fraising them back when fitting them between pillars as cutting tools skate over nickel instead of cutting into it as they do on silver or the base metal.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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