Alright, hello everyone! Today we're going to be making a little video for you.
We're going to be plating this nickel-plated fishing lure
and we're going to be highlighting a new exciting product; our Rose Gold solution.
So we're going to go through the process, show you how we could plate this item with our Rose Gold.
It's not important that it's a fishing lure that's just the item we chose because it has a nice texture to it.
It really shows the color well.
So it could be anything, imagine jewelry, you know, a necklace, pendant, something like
that. Anything that would really fit into these beakers here.
As you see we're using the Jewel Master Pro HD. That's our new kit if you haven't seen it and it's great!
So we're just going to go through the steps real quick describing them as we go along.
Okay, we have it hung here in the Electro Cleaner solution.
This is the first step for most processes. As you see it's held on the gold bus bar there.
That's the negative current and then we've got the positive current coming up over the back
through this anode here. It's a stainless anode, just plugs right in the back there.
We'll put that in there for about 30 seconds. It's nice and clean.
Rinse it off here in this rinse water beaker.
Now we're going to go on to the Surface Activator solution, it's the second step. As I said this is a nickel piece.
For most basic metals, this is the same three-step process that you would use.
If it were steel or stainless steel you would just need to change this Surface
Activator out for Woods Nickel Strike and a bagged nickel anode.
So that looks good and activated.
Now before you Rose Gold something, it's really best if you apply, even just a
thin layer of, yellow gold. So let's go ahead and do a final rinse here of the
piece before going into the yellow gold.
So we're going to put on a 24k gold.
So over here we've adjusted the voltage.
You want to set it to around four,
three and a half to four, and once you put your piece in it will drop down.
You then, it will drop about a volt usually.
You then adjust your voltage to about, anywhere from 2.7 to 3 volts.
We like to go to about 2.8 usually.
That just kind of seems to be the sweet spot for most pieces.
So as you see the meter is reading 0.25 amps or 2 and 50 milli amperes and 2.8 volts.
We're going to leave it in there for a minute to give it a nice gold coating on it.
You could leave it in there as long as you want. Just depends on how thick you want that yellow gold layer to be.
We're more for decorative purposes just going to be applying, put it in there for maybe half a minute.
Just give it a gold color,
then we'll put the Rose Gold on top. As you can see
in that short amount of time it was gold plated everywhere. Looks beautiful.
Yellow gold, our yellow gold solution is always predictable like that. It delivers great results.
Here it is next to a nickel piece that hasn't been plated yet.
Okay, so now what we're going to do is change out the gold. So what we've done is swung
this bus bar over to the side
and unplugged the anode from its spot there and then you can just pick the beaker up.
We had this Rose Gold ready to go ahead of time.
We heated it up in the microwave. Actually having a little microwave for your lab is nice.
Got it up to a hundred and thirty ahead of time
and then it's ready to go. Plugged into the back, swing that bus bar back out in front, now you're ready to Rose Gold plate.
So we're just going to get right to it.
Go through the 3-step process again, real quickly. Going to Electro Clean,
probably only do these about 15 seconds this time. And what you need to remember to do is
adjust your voltage back up to about six to seven volts. For these first two steps,
anywhere in that range will do fine.
Okay, piece is Electro Cleaned, looks good.
I'm going to activate it just real quickly. That nice fresh gold layer is a
quite active as it is, rinse. We like to always do a double rinse before going
into any gold solution, just to prevent contamination.
And now we're going to adjust the voltage.
For the Rose Gold we'll start at 6 volts.
It really has a wide range of use but we'll try it out at 6 and see what what we think.
As you can see it's gassing real quick here. It starts to plate immediately,
and it will turn Rose Gold really quickly but it doesn't get
the color you're looking for till about, i'd say 20 30 seconds.
We're going to go ahead and leave this part in for a minute.
About, I haven't been timing it. Yeah, about a minute.
After 30 seconds it turns the color and then anytime longer
than that you're just putting more and more thickness.
Yeah, this is our new Rose Gold it works really well. We love it and you'll see the results here in a second.
You can judge for yourself.
Look at that! Nice, pink, uniform color
everywhere. Go ahead and rinse it off there and we'll take a look at it.
You know, imagine that, that could have been a rack of rings, pendants, anything little fits in there well.
And.. just that quick we went from A to Z, Rose Gold
Here's a regular gold.
Here we go. We got a yellow gold, the rose gold there, and then a
regular nickel that they all were at one point.
I'll show you the other side here,
the inside.
Very uniform, nice plate.
And yeah, it's the same price as the yellow gold per bottle.
And this is the Jewel Master, plating with yellow golden and Rose Gold
It's as easy as that folks.
If you have any questions please just let us know.
Thanks for watching!