Re-nickle plating a nickle plated frame

Hi whe and I had bolts replated last your to keep the cost down i wire bushed them clean, that's where the cost is the labour.
They need a clean and rust free surface
Regards Andy 😁
 
Had my SF frame nickel plated back in the 80s - didn't work very well and was flaky where they overlapped two separate dippings! I didn't like it (obviously), so they dipped it in acid (I think) to remove it and went again - was never successful and I ended up powder coating over it, but it has protected it. After sand blasting ready for another powder coating, it has resisted rusting for well over a year.

I think the non-electroplating method would be heaps better - Thomas Aus Lau (I think it was him) had his SFC done and it looks very schmikko.
 
Marty,

preferable to strip off old nickel for bestust finish.
You can replate small sections, but you would probably struggle getting the right areas covered in the solution.
There is the problem of using some of the newer plating systems with an older plated finish as well.  Can end up messy, money wasting and very frustrating !
Give me a call on weekend if you want more info.  Veteran and vintage bikes have heaps of nickel plating and I had heaps of practice when younger.

davidH
 
What am I missing here, is this not an electroplating thing? Don't you need to completely submerge the frame in a tank with the solution covering the whole frame and then apply an electrical current? Anodes and all that stuff. That's a hell of a lot of solution. Can you do this on sections of a frame?
 
Vince said:
What am I missing here, is this not an electroplating thing? Don't you need to completely submerge the frame in a tank with the solution covering the whole frame and then apply an electrical current? Anodes and all that stuff. That's a hell of a lot of solution. Can you do this on sections of a frame?
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My SFC frame was recently cadmium plated in a bathtub in a Roman garage.

Paul
 
I wasn't there when it came out but the story of Angelo from Moto Officina driving down to Rome where the frame was plated in a back yard business because apparently it isn't very legal in Italy, and then driving back, a 24 hour non stop trip is a book in itself.

Finished result after a few months is nicely dulled. I have some photos, somewhere.

The bike, if all goes well, should be in my garage mid June, three and a half years after it was burnt.

Paul
 
Tippie said:
"because apparently it isn't very legal in Italy"
Hmmm, I wonder why.
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hahahahaha I suspect its the sodium cyanide thats used for Cadmium plating, I wonder where it gets poured after the plating wasn't very legally done?  :o
 
On the train trip along the river to Firenze from Pisa you pass tons of dilapidated factory shells, a local fellow passenger said all the leather factories had to close when they were no longer allowed to dump their waste chemicals into the river.
 
Paul Marx said:
The man in question works for the Italian aviation industry in his back yard.

Paul
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Makes sense ....... I get my cad plating done at a legal shop that does illicit work on the side. One advantage to this viroid thing going on now is you can make the inspectors wait outside while you hide the mess under the pretext of sanitization for their benefit.

Jim
 
helicopterjim said:
Makes sense ....... I get my cad plating done at a legal shop that does illicit work on the side. One advantage to this viroid thing going on now is you can make the inspectors wait outside while you hide the mess under the pretext of sanitization for their benefit.

Jim
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Bit like restaurants.

Paul
 
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