[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] Question for Metallurgically-Smart People

[Nick England]

Gold foil might be even better if you can find some. It is incredibly thin
and you can solder to it.

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 2:21 PM Tim Sammons <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave - you might try "rubbing" some thin aluminum foil into the crystal
> surface.  The foil that wraps Hershey's chocolate Kisses is pretty thin.
> I've done that on plastic models - it adheres well, no adhesive involved
> (air pressure and molecular forces??) and looks good.  Will you then try to
> solder to it?  Obvious problems there...Or silver epoxy wire to the
> Aluminum..
>
> Anyway, just a thought..
> Tim
> N6CC
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 8:12 AM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone here know a way to deposit a metal coating on
>> the surface of a quartz crystal blank, without spending a gazillion
>> bucks on a Phazer-Atom-Smasher-Hellbore vacuum chamber furnace?
>>
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