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.
We're just going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 we
do it just for good measure.
Double rinse.
Now we're ready to go into the Rhodium.
What voltage are we going to use for the rhodium, Terry?
We're going to start out.. I'm going to start out with an
initial voltage of probably five and a half or there abouts.
And we'll drop it in.
Then we'll turn it, until we go up to about four volts.
The label says three to 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 sure that the parts are getting
the current they need.
So if they're clipped they have a little bit better connection.
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.
On these small pieces.
It's a power-hungry solution.
Now the label also indicates a thirty to sixty seconds but,
we would recommend planning more like in the range of
one to two minutes.
So I think we're going to plate these for probably a couple of minutes.
Well look how much gassing there is, now the solution is.. you can't even see through it.
Okay, so
Now we're just going to leave this going here.
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 heat up you don't have to do anything to it you just set up and get going.
Really quite easy to use.
A lot of people don't know what rhodium is
but when you go to the mall and look in 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.
It's very brilliant. It's about as
white as silver. It's about as hard as chrome.
And so it's perfect for jewelry because it will never corrode.
Rhodium is one of the most corrosive resistant materials that you can Electro plate with.
Which can be a problem if you don't get it right.
There's no chemically stripping it off and it's hard.
It's very difficult to polish off.
We try to encourage people that are going to use a rhodium plate, to make sure you practice.
You know what you're doing and you getting the parts thoroughly clean.
So that you don't end up with a problem.
We're going to go ahead and pull them out it's been
a good couple of minutes.
Rob: Lets check them out.
Let me give it a quick rinse here.
Rob: Make sure they got covered everywhere.
It's about as.. almost as white as silver.
Alright, if you think they're good let's pull them down here so we can see them better.
This is just little jewelry pendants we had.
Rob: How long could you plate them, like theoretically, before they start to look ugly?
Well, i plated stuff using this very solution for
three or four minutes and it really didn't affect the brightness.
If you plate too long then the brightness goes away and it kind of
turns into instead of it being a brilliant white..
sort of a battleship gray if you..
In fact I've done technical plating for Rhodium where we plated
two micron, plated it for more than an hour.
and it turns gray.
Rob: Really? Okay.
So for practical purposes you'd probably only need just a couple minutes.
I'd say two minutes is fine.
It's going to give you a really good..
That really did brighten that up that little ball was even..
How about these flat parts, they were pretty nice and bright.
Yeah. Everything looks really good.
Ah,yeah. There it is next to gold stuff.
Rhodium is.. this rhodium solution is really easy and it's forgiving.
You just want to make sure that the part is either.. if it's
freshly gold-plated then you're not going to have to worry about it being clean.
Alright, well there it is folks. Looks..
similar to silver but you don't get the corrosion.
It's really quite simple to use with the Jewel Master.
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 anoide 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!