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Brush Plating Chemicals and Brush Plating Solutions

Brush Plating Chemicals

Types of Brush Plating Chemicals

Cleaning
Activating - Preparing basis materials for plating. Activator #5 specially designed for gold plating.
Anodizing or Chromate Coating - Aluminum, cadmium, silver or zinc
Blackening - Black nickel, steel blackening, copper, silver and tin blackening. Click for "Blackening".
Pre-plating
- Nickel or copper
Finish or Build-up Plating -  nickel, copper, cadmium, lead, tin, zinc.
    Alloy Plating -  tin-lead, tin-zinc, zinc-nickel acid, tin-nickel. 
New Tin-Nickel, Tin-Zinc and Zinc-Nickel Plating Solutions for steel, low hydrogen embrittlement formulas.
Precious Metal Plating - gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, silver, indium


Quantities:  Chemicals are stocked in pints, liters and gallons. Precious metals are available in quarter and half-pints.
Custom chemicals and alloys can be formulated to meet your needs.  Please ask our staff for assistance.

Brush Plating Chemical List

B.P.S. #  Solution Name    Description
1100 Cleaning and Deoxidizing  Cleans surface
1101 Activator #1 Activator for nickel, stainless steel (400 series)
1102  Activator #2    Activator for aluminum, hi-carbon steel
1103 Activator #3        Removes smut from etching
1105 Activator #5 Activator for gold plating
1111 Activator Special       Activator for Chromium or Stainless Steel
1203 Chromium Stripper  Strip chromium plating 
Anodize
1250S Aluminum Anodize, Type II Clear aluminum anodize
1250SA Hard Anodize for Aluminum Clear hard anodize
Blackening
1305S Copper blackener Blackens polished or plated copper
1306S Silver blackener Blackens electrodeposited silver
1307S Nickel blackener Blackens nickel and nickel plating
1307T Tin blackener Blackens tin and tin plating
1309S Steel blackener Blackens all iron or steel products
except stainless steel
Cadmium
1304 Cadmium Special Plate for corrosion protection and lubrication. RFI shielding
Chromate
1308 Aluminum Chromate Chromate treatment for aluminum
1308C Cadmium Chromate Supplementary treatment for cadmium plating. Meets QQ-P-416, II
1308Z Zinc Chromate Supplementary treatment for zinc plating.  Meets Type II req.
1308S Silver Chromate Supplementary treatment for silver plating.  Meets QQ-S-365, Grade A
Copper
1330 Copper Acid Build-up or pre-plate for acid tolerant metals, pit fillling
1331                 Copper Alkaline Restoration of steel or cast iron, pit filling, rapid build-up
1333 Copper High Speed Repair and dimensional restoration for acid tolerant metals
Electropolish
1360 Electropolish for stainless steel Brightens, polishes and passivates stainless steel
Nickel
1365 Nickel, black Decorative black coating
1367 Nickel "B" High Speed   Restoration of steel, copper, rapid build-up. RFI shielding
1368 Nickel "C" Acid Repair stainless steel, aluminum, electroless nickel,  hard-wearing
1369 Nickel Sulfamate Repair, restoration, low stress deposit, heavy build-up
Tin
1370 Tin Acid For solderability, corrosion protection
1371 Tin Alkaline For solderability on ferrous metals
1373 Tin Type "A" High Speed For solderability, rapid build-up
Tin-Lead
1485 Tin-Lead (90/10) For solderability, circuit board repair
1490 Tin-Lead (60/40) For solderability, circuit board repair
1491 Tin-lead (10/90)    For solderability, circuit board repair
1600 Babbit Navy Grade II Repair or resize bearing surface
Tin-Nickel
1376 Tin-Nickel (85/15) Alkaline For corrosion protection
Tin-Zinc
1438 Tin-Zinc (80/20) Alkaline For corrosion protection
Lead
1350 Lead Gasketing and pit filling, solderablity
Zinc
1381 Zinc Alkaline For corrosion resistance on steels
1383 Zinc High Speed For corrosion resistance
1384 Zinc-Nickel Acid (85/15) for corrosion resistance
1386 Zinc-Nickel Alkaline (85/15) for corrosion resistance on steels
Silver
1090 Silver (cyanide) solderability, conductivity, decorative
Gold
1021 Gold Alkaline (Pure Gold) pure gold, electronic applications,
(Mil-G-45204, Type III)
1023 Gold 23K decorative, corrosion resistance
(Mil-G-45204, Type II)
1024 Gold 24K decorative, corrosion resistance, PCB contact repair, conductivity,
(Mil-G-45204, Type I)
Platinum/Palladium
1060 Platinum corrosion resistance
1065 Palladium Electrical coating, high temp. solder base
Rhodium
1070 Rhodium "A" decorative, conductivity, corrosion and wear resistance
1071 Rhodium "B" decorative, conductivity, corrosion and wear resistance
Indium
1080 Indium solderability, lubricity

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