An In-Depth Look at Our Brush Plating Machines 

Our professional brush plating kits are designed for precision, durability, and ease of use. To ensure you select the perfect system for your project, please review our compatibility notes and kit capabilities below.

Important Notes
Our machines and solutions cannot plate onto aluminum or titanium. Also, we do not recommend brush plating carbon or mild steel items (such as firearms). Non-stainless steel oxidizes rapidly and requires a quick immersion plating process rather than brush plating.

When choosing a kit, it's important to know if your base metal must be activated for proper adhesion, and if it needs a diffusion barrier to prevent oxidation of the base metal from diffusing up through the gold.

Customization: All kits can be purchased as equipment only. If different types or quantities of solutions are needed, please reach out and someone from our team can help customize your kit. Our equipment is compatible with third-party solutions as long as you use the correct anode/bit and stay within the machine's voltage and amperage limits.  



Kits for Metals That Do Not Require Activation:

Goldsmith Starter Kit
Ideal for touch-ups and small-scale decorative plating.

  • Capabilities: Plates directly onto clean, highly polished nickel, palladium, and gold.
  • Conditional Use: Can plate onto silver, copper, brass, bronze, and some solders only if applied heavily (minimum of 1 minute per square inch). Otherwise, a diffusion barrier is required.

  • Pro-Tip: Surfaces must be meticulously clean and polished. For guaranteed adhesion and a more forgiving workflow, consider upgrading to a system that includes electrocleaning and activation.

 

PCB Repair Kit
Engineered for electrical contact repair and fine-detail work.

  • Capabilities: Performs all the functions of the Goldsmith Starter Kit, but includes specialized supplies for small, precise areas.
  • Includes: Both brush gold and pen gold (with pen tips), making it excellent for intricate decorative plating.
  • Note: If your printed circuit boards or components require a nickel or palladium diffusion barrier, look into our Universal Plater options.

 

 

Kits for Metals That Require Activation:

Universal Plater, Option 1
The setup for ideal surface preparation and multi-metal plating.

  • Capabilities: Performs everything the PCB Repair Kit can, plus electro-cleaning and surface preparation. 
  • Diffusion Barrier: Includes nickel plating solution to create a reliable diffusion barrier or a bright final finish.
  • Benefits: Cleaning and activating your copper, brass, nickel, silver, solder, and bronze pieces maximizes adhesion and reduces plating problems. 
  • Flexibility: Includes both brush and pen gold for fine-detail work. 


Universal Plater, Option 2
Even more power than Option 1

  • Capabilities: Includes everthing in Option 1, plus an activator designed specifically for plating onto stainless steel surfaces.


The Sidekick Add-On Kit
Expand your existing setup without paying for duplicate power supplies.

  • What It Is: Basically a Universal Plater, Option 1 Kit, but excludes the power supply and pen gold solution.
  • Best Used For: Plugging directly into your existing Universal Plater or Jewel Master machine, or into your ProLab power supply to expand your workspace or add brush capabilities to a bath system.


Universal Plater: Chrome Edition
The best choice for automotive and chrome projects. 

  • Capabilities: Shares the capabilities of our standard Universal Plater, Option 2, but adds the ability to chemically strip chrome.
  • Efficiency: The chrome stripping solution doubles as an electro-cleaner at the flip of a switch, and the stainless steel activator is included, allowing you to clean and prepare a wide variety of surfaces for plating.
  • Customization: Offers three customizable gold packages so you can choose your brush gold volume and add pen gold if needed.


Universal Plater: Chrome Edition (International)
A specialized kit created for interational chemical shipping restrictions.

  • Capabilities: Plates everything our regular Universal Plater: Chrome Edition can plate, including the ability to chemically strip chrome, electroclean, and activate a variety of surfaces.
  • The Difference: Pretreatment chemicals do not ship ready-to-use. Instead, we provide base solutions and mixing instructions.
  • Requirement: International buyers must source sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid locally to complete the solutions.