Alright guys this is Rob with Gold Plating Services and got a pretty
interesting video for you today. A lot of people like to plate chains. This
particular customer needs to plate these very very fine chains and they're having
some trouble getting everywhere to plate, half middle plate stuff like that. And
the reason is to get the electricity to flow from link to link can be tricky.
Well I've already got this racked up basically I just wound it around the
post like a snake and pulled it tight where I could, just kind of improvised a
little bit and then clipped it at the very end to hold it in place, so what
we're using here is the Universal Plater Chrome Edition with the Freestyle.
Now the Universal Plater Chrome Edition, for those of you don't know, is a
brush cleaning kit. I've got the brushes unplugged right now because this is
actually powering the Freestyle. The Freestyle has no power unless it's
hooked into this kit through these wires. You could actually hook it up to others
as well, but this is made specifically to be a good partner for the Universal
plater to make it so you can bath and brush plate, but let's get this thing
plating here. And normally there's bus bars hanging over the beakers I'm
actually just going to clip this up and so let's see how this turns out. So we
got electro cleaner in the first spot here
and this just gets the surface wet out as it's called and is a very critical
step. I think I forgot to mention these are stainless steel which is actually
even harder to plate than you know say a silver necklace. I'm gonna leave it in
here for probably a minute minute minute and a half we really got to make sure it
it wets out nice. You won't be able to tell by looking out like you can with a
flat surface if it if it has become completely hydrophilic, but I'm just
gonna go off my experience and say about, probably about a minute. I'm not actually
even timing it, but just go off my best guess here. Alright so we're
gonna call that good it isn't a whole lot of surface area after all. Pull it
out we've got a rinse speaker right here. I'm gonna do double rinse here and we're
gonna go into this is called acid gold strike TriVal and it's a proprietary
solution making it so that gold can adhere to stainless steel. I think that
should be enough see and at this point it's already gold because it's a gold
strike so I think we're gonna have a nice even coat of gold everywhere. Oh
before we do that we want to turn down the voltage
to about 2.8 and I'm just going to hang this right on the side right here. And
we'll see how it goes I will get right back with you.
So I took it off of the rack and have inspected it and indeed it did plate
everywhere very well it looks great. And that's just the trick to doing a chain
you have to wrap it tight period. And if you guys have any questions, comments leave
them down below remember to subscribe and thanks for watching.