[time-nuts] Gold plating on aluminum

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Oct 20 19:05:31 UTC 2009


In message <20091020.120107.944.6.cdelect at juno.com>, Corby Dawson writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am working on a project to plate the lamp reflector in an HP 5065A with
>gold. The existing reflector is aluminum. What little I can find suggests
>that in addition to some preliminary plating the layer just below the
>gold should be nickel as the mirror operates at a high temperature (100
>deg C). Does anyone know of a company that can do this plating for me?

Talk to any local goldsmith, they will know...

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