Gold/Silver Plating

>art

just paint it

>>1143192
They have those two part paints, black first then chrome or gold and it looks real.

>>1143192
>one side needs to be gold plated and the other silver plated
>needs
Why does it NEED to be plated? If there's some chemical or electrical need for it, sure, but if it just needs to look gold/silver, there are easier ways. Like anodizing aluminum to gold, then cleaning one side back to silver.

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>half assing a librul arts degree
>your universities fw

There are many youtube guides on electroplating, I suggest trying there first

>>1143220

I did but usually they were going from a base metal to a precious material. I'm going to be milling out the material or stacking laser cut plates.

I'm in electrical engineering but I've got an Industrial Technology AA which makes your post funny as fuck btw.

>>1143216
They lack the skill, the equipment, toxic chemicals... Just paint the shit.

>>1143224
AA Kek...

>>1143192
why not anodize aluminum with a yellow/orange dye?

For steel you could plate copper first, then zinc and heat it to form a goldish finish.
Or you can try to react sulfur with the steel surface.

>>1143257
>why not anodize aluminum with a yellow/orange dye?

hell thats what the chinese ebayers do with 'brass' fittings

>>1143257
Mostly because I wanted to have actual precious metals on the surfaces for visual reasons. I've done anodizing to make it look like metals before but it doesn't really look quite right.

I may end up doing rose gold plating and it looks like the best method is going to be to do several layers to before gold.

If you can heat it and then run a brass wire brush over it it will look kinda like gold I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uv6yZ9R6N8
I can only find this crappy video. Brass wire brushes are widely available but heating your project to the desired temperature might be a problem, especially with aluminum. For the silver side I suggest you just polish the shit out of it?

Check out Caswell Plating, they make a range of DIY kits including gold plating. For a silver finish, you're better off using electroless nickel which will have that silver look, but unlike silver it won't tarnish in a few weeks. Personally, I'd go with aluminium and anodise to gold and polish to siliver as the cheapest option, but go and speak with the plating place you are intending to use if you are not DIY'ing to see what metal works best for them. Some of the plating baths are pretty nasty so shops tend to specialise in only a few processes; might even need to look up one of those places that gilds baby booties and other jewellery style plating.

If you want a bright and shiny surface finish, you've got to deliver the parts with a good surface finish to start with, not just whatever comes off the CNC.

Yet another option would be one of the metallic paint finishes; the high end ones (not your $10 hardware store spray cans but proper 2k speciality car paints) can look very good and depending on size may be much cheaper.

>>1143311

Thanks for the reply, I looked through their site earlier when googling for kits. There's another similar one based in the uk. Their kits are so expensive I can plate all the stages for their cost of one and half of theirs if I get the stuff myself.

I'm going to just have to do all the plating stages.