Hi there. I have a question. I have seen in many descriptions of jewelry says " 22kt Gold Plated Brass" or "18kt Gold Plated Brass", etc... Is this solution has de ability to do the same ?. Thank you in advance.
@Clara Bella : carats (kt units) only refers to the perrcent of gold in the alloys. As gold by itself is a very ductile metal (== soft), we most often harden it by adding some silver, and sometimes a few other metals for specific effects (rhoidium, in example, to get a "white gold", and sometimes platinum or palladium). So once dissolved properly without any other metal, pure gold can only give you a 24kt solution. As ductility remain a major property of gold, therefore gold plating will never last as long as a less usual bare metal gold alloy would, in terms of mechanic performances. See gold contacts on your credit card, in example (very thin layer, btw, through a vacuum deposition process). You can check and measure your plating thickness deposition with a micrometer.
@@GoldenSolutionPlating cool, what other metal was used here? I will be casting brass sometime in the near future and i definitely will want to gold plate some stuff in the future. Thank you for the reply!
Hi there. I have a question. I have seen in many descriptions of jewelry says " 22kt Gold Plated Brass" or "18kt Gold Plated Brass", etc... Is this solution has de ability to do the same ?. Thank you in advance.
Clara Bella yes but our solution is 24 k
@Clara Bella : carats (kt units) only refers to the perrcent of gold in the alloys. As gold by itself is a very ductile metal (== soft), we most often harden it by adding some silver, and sometimes a few other metals for specific effects (rhoidium, in example, to get a "white gold", and sometimes platinum or palladium). So once dissolved properly without any other metal, pure gold can only give you a 24kt solution. As ductility remain a major property of gold, therefore gold plating will never last as long as a less usual bare metal gold alloy would, in terms of mechanic performances. See gold contacts on your credit card, in example (very thin layer, btw, through a vacuum deposition process). You can check and measure your plating thickness deposition with a micrometer.
The first step is plating the brass with another metal? Sorry i know almost nothing about this😂
yes because if you plate gold directly on to brass the brass will react with the gold over time
@@GoldenSolutionPlating cool, what other metal was used here? I will be casting brass sometime in the near future and i definitely will want to gold plate some stuff in the future. Thank you for the reply!
Kapitein_Valk no other metals
@@royofthecrimson The bottle says it is a nickel solution.