Hi guys this is Rob and Terry with Gold Plating Services and we're making
another video for you today. This one is How to do Rhodium plating with the Jewel
Master which is the option 3 kit. It comes with everything you need to do gold
plating and also rhodium plating which the extra thing that it includes is this platinized titanium anode and the rhodium plating solution. So we have these gold
plated items here and it's kind of an industry standard with rhodium to either
have them gold plated or nickel plated before doing the rhodium plating the
rhodium solution is pretty acidic so if you put an item in there that's not gold
or nickel plated it will corrode it really quickly if there's no current, so
we're just gonna get right into it. The first thing we got here is electro
cleaner these were freshly gold plated items and so they don't have any
fingerprints they're already really clean, so we're not gonna need to spend
much time here. We did have it set at eight volts, so you know it dropped down
to about seven, seven is usually good for electro cleaning. Now we're gonna go into
the surface activator now you may notice it's yellow that's because after you use
it a time or two it changes from that pink color to yellow that's just normal
and okay not a problem. Did that only for a couple seconds as well because it's
gold. Gold does not require any activation actually but you know just
for good measure, double rinse. Now we're ready to go into the rhodium. What voltage
are we gonna use for the rhodium Terry? We're gonna start out I'm gonna start
out with an initial voltage of probably five and a half or thereabouts and we'll
drop it in and then we'll turn it until we go up to about four volts. The label
says three or four but we're going to do it at four just simply because the parts
are hanging on the rack and so we want to have a little bit higher voltage to
make the parks are getting the the current
they need, so if they're clips they have a little bit better connection and this
is just such a fine point of contact that we want to make sure there's enough
voltage basically and look at how much amperage is pulling seven and a half
amps all these small pieces. And so it's a power-hungry solution. Now the label
also indicates 30 to 60 seconds but we would recommend plating more like in
the range of 1 to 2 minutes and so I think we're gonna plate these for
probably a couple of minutes. Well look how much gassing there is now the
solutions you can't see through it. Okay so we're just gonna leave this going here
um the rhodium is a room-temperature rhodium, which our rhodium is, most are
not and that's actually pretty convenient because it's just ready to go
you don't have to wait for it to heat up you don't have to do anything to it you
just set up and get going it's really quite easy to use. A lot of people don't
know what rhodium is, but when you go to the to the mall and looking the jewelry
stores that the engagement rings and they call it white gold what you're
really looking at is a rhodium plate in almost every case and it's very
brilliant that's about as white as silver is about as hard as chrome and so
it's a it's perfect for jewelry because it will never corrode it's
rhodium is one of the most corrosive resistant materials that you can electro
play with. Which can be a problem if you if you don't get it right
there's no chemically stripping it off and it's hard and so it's very difficult
to polish often, so we try to encourage people that are gonna use a rhodium
plate make sure you practice you know what you're doing and you give it at the
part thoroughly clean, so you don't end up
with a problem we're gonna go ahead and pull
them out it's been a good couple of minutes. Let's check them out let me let
me get the quick rinse here make sure they got covered everywhere.
It's about as almost as white as silver and alright if you think they're good
let's pull them down here so you can see them just take them off. Just a
little jewelry pendants we had. So how long could you plate them
theoretically you think before they'd start to look ugly? Well three or four minutes
and it really didn't affect the brightness, if you plate too long
then you the brightness goes away and it kind of turns into instead of being a
brilliant white sort of a battleship gray. If you in fact I've done technical
plating for rhodium while we played 2 microns we plated it for more than an
hour and it turns gray. Really? Okay, so for practical purposes you'd probably
only need just a couple I say two minutes is fine it's gonna give you a
really good that really did brighten that up. That little ball was was even how
about they were nice and bright yeah everything looks really good yeah. There
it is next to the gold stuff. The rhodium this rhodium solution is
really easy and it's forgiving that you just want to make sure that the part is
either if it's freshly gold-plated then you're not gonna have to worry about it
being clean. Alright well there it is folks looks similar to silver but you
don't get the corrosion and it's really quite simple to use with the Jewel
Master, so if you don't have a Jewel Master the option three would be the one
to get because it comes with everything you need to do the gold plating and
everything you need to do the rhodium plating. The option 2 comes with just
the gold package. If you already have a Jewel Master then all you need to get is
that platinized titanium anode there and the rhodium plating solution and you'll
be ready to go. If you have any questions let us know you can either give us a
call or email and thanks for watching.