Bright Nickel Plating Solution - Bath or Brush
Plating Solutions





Bright Nickel Plating Solution is an electroplating solution that is designed to plate a hard, bright nickel deposit onto most types of metallic surfaces*. When correctly applied to a properly prepared surface the nickel plate can provide a beautiful, high luster decorative finish by itself. Because of its excellent appearance, hardness, and other physical properties, Bright Nickel Plate is the most common material used as an under plate for subsequent finishes, such as, chrome, gold, rhodium and other types of decorative finishes.
*A few metals such as zinc, stainless steel, and tungsten require special pretreatment before plating with Bright Nickel Plating Solution. For information about using our Bright Nickel Plating Solution, please email our Technical Support Department. Provide as many details about your project as you can. We will get back with you with our recommendation.
For Bath plating this solution requires a bagged nickel anode. Meter setting of 2-3 Volts, for 1 - 2 Minutes, at a temperature of 110 - 130˚F.
For Brush plating a Nickel application bit is required. Meter setting of 3 - 4 Volts for 10 - 20 seconds per ² inch at room temperature.
Check out our New Plating Procedure Chart for details about our products and how to use them.
Plating Demo using our Bright Nickel Solution to Gold Plate onto Copper
NOTE: The Bright Nickel Solution contains a brightener/leveling component that may come out of solution at lower temperatures. This can produce a white or light-colored layer of precipitate at the bottom of the container. If this happens the nickel solution will still perform normally as a brush plating solution. However, if the solution is to be used for bath plating then the leveling component needs to be re-dissolved back into the solution. This can be done by warming the solution to 120° F to 140° F and agitating the solution until the leveling component is dissolved. See video below.
Safety Data Sheet for this product.
Technical Data Sheet for this product when brush plating.
Technical Data Sheet for this product when bath plating.
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