[TheForge] Fw: Electro-plating and Electro-forming Resources

[Phlip]

A friend of mine, Magnus, an SCA Laurel, for those of you who know what that
means sent me this information, and I thought you guys might find it of
interest. He's done an awful lot in every craft you can imagine, but old age
and a progressive disability has limited his ability to DO things to
researching and studying odd things, and I thought y'all might enjoy seeing
what he's come up with this time ;-)

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Tim Bray wrote (some months ago and I just now discovered it):
>  > Magnus,
>  > I'm trying to find information about plating and electroforming
>  > so we can experiment with that.  Do you have any suggestions?
>  > There is one book that has been recommended - "Electroplating
>  > and Electroforming: A Guide for the Craftsman" by Newman & Newman.
>  > Are you familiar with it?
>  > Thanks, Colin -  Albion Works www.albionworks.net
>
> Speaking of: Electroplating and Electroforming by Lee Scott Newmann
> and Jay Hartley Newman, 110 photographs, 20 color plates, 96 pages,
> paperback, Crown Publishers, Inc., One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
> My particular issue is 1979, ISBN 0517530597.
>
> Yes, I bought mine probaby in the mid 80's.
> It's a photographically and informationally comparable book to
> -say- Tim McCreight's Metal Casting or The Complete Metalsmith.
> It shows you how to do most things. I like it a lot.
>                        ................
> Electro-plating -may- be a strictly 19th Century phenomenon.
> Then again it may not. Future archaeology may tell.
> Mercury amalgam with silver or gold is more historical
> and dangerous.
>                          ..............
> Two current suppliers apart from direct jewelery supply houses:
> http://www.caswellplating.com/
> http://www.dalmarplating.com/
>                           .............
> Others books I have are:
>
> Electroforming and Electroplating Simplified by Dale R. Miller,
> 59 pages, no ISBN, no date. Dalmar Manufacturing Co., -once-
> Chicago Ridge, Illinois, but they moved to Florida a while back.
> Still in business. http://www.dalmarplating.com/
> Telephone: 1-941-275-6540; Fax 1-941-275-1731
> Postal Address: 11759 S Cleveland Ave, Suite 28, Fort Myers, FL 33907
> Email General Information: dalmar at peganet.com
> Sales: dalmar at peganet.com
> These people supply plating machines and supplies,
> although the cyanide solutions are harder to get these days.
> Silver plating is generally brighter with the cyanide solutions.
> ............
> Grobet USA (A major jewelry supply manufacturer who bought out many
> competitors and sells only through local dealers) has their
> Plating Guide No. 62.01215 which is 24 pages paperback, usually
> available through many jewelry supply houses as well.
> Grobet USA, 750 Washington Avenue, Carlstadt, New Jersey 07072
> Phone 201-939-6700  Fax 201-939-5067. This one is 24 pages and
> lists their products as well. Mine is dated 1998.
> One of my area's particular supplier for Grobet's Jewelry Supplies is:
> Tired Ted’s Tools, Equipment, Supplies, Jewelry
> Henry ‘Ted’ Sowell, P.O.Box 2344, Lancaster, SC 29721
> (803) 273-3402; Fax (803) 273-3294
> tiredted at infoave.net    http://www.tiredted.com
> Now, all you folks from overseas should bug the mess out of him
> and thoroughly confuse the man. ;)
> ...........
> Another larger book on plating I have is:
> Electroplating, "a practical handbook of diagrams, formulas,
> processes, and instructions that will show you how to set up
> and operate a complete amateur electroplating workshop, prepared
> by the staff of Popular Science Monthly", Popular Science Publishing
> Company, Inc., New York, 1936, printed in the U.S.A. by Quinn and
> Boden Co. Inc., Rahway, N.J., 260 pages. This thing is pretty
> inclusive if somewhat dated.
> ...........
> I also have Principles of Electroplating and Electroforming
> (Electrotyping) by William Blum, Chemist, National Bureau of
> Standards, and George B. Hogaboom, Consultant, New Britain, Conn.
> Third Edition, Second Impression, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.,
> New York, Toronto, London, 1949 (dates to 1924). xv + 455 pages.
>                            ...........
> Try bibliofind.com for the older books. I don't sell them, nor
> do they have ISBN numbers. ;) I usually get questions like that.
>                            ...........
> If you don't have this WHOLE SET and you think you're a craftsman,
> you probably should. There is nothing comparable these days:
> Popular Mechanics Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia for Home Owner,
> Craftsman and Hobbyist in Twelve Volumes, J.J. Little & Ives Co.,
> Inc., New York, Copyright 1955. Back in the days before television
> when America was still a highly resourceful country with diverse
> skilled craftsmen and a manufacturing industry not on its way
> overseas Popular Mechanics Magazine (and the once great
> Popular Science Magazine) had wonderful articles on making absolutely
> everything and how to do it's. This particular set is a compilation
> of about thirty years worth of material including woodworking,
> metalwork, machining, casting, welding, all kinds of crafts -
> and especially how to make your own machinery and equipment and
> run it. Make your own welder for example...
> Part of Volume IV contains:
> Tricks of Fixing Clocks; Electric Drill Bracket (early homemade
> drill press); Electric Fan Repair; Electric Handsaw Technique;
> Electric Iron Repair; Electric Motor and Directional Switch for
> same; Motor mounts; Motor Rewinding, Servicing, How to make an
> Electric Torch for brazing; Electric Alarms; A rotating contact;
> An electrical tester to make; A test light to make; Electromagnet
> designing and building; ELECTROPLATING METAL (showing how to put
> together the equipment; ELECTROPLATING with GOLD and SILVER;
> ELECTROPLATING NON-CONDUCTORS (like butterflies, shoes, fruit,
> leaves, etc.); ELECTROPLATING WITHOUT CYANIDES; Enamel Inlays
> baked on metals; Enamel for colorful beauty; End tables; Enlargers
> for Photography; Etching Glass and Metal; Extension Cords; Faceplate
> Lathe from Polishing Head; Faucets and Valves; and that is only
> an example of the first third of one of the twelve books.
>
> Other books in the set contain making and using casting
> equipment, archery equipment and crossbow construction, finishing,
> and hundreds of other subjects. Nothing like it has been published
> since that I know of. There have been many Popular Mechanics and
> Popular Science Encyclopedia sets since, but none compare at all.
>                             ............
> The Amateur Craftsman's Encyclopedia of Things to Make is an old
> favorite of mine. One book, - "a Complete Manual for the home-workshop
> enthusiast with detailed drawings and instructions for making toys,
> novelties, sporting equipment, models, furniture, house and garden
> conveniences, radios, photographic accessories, and scientific
> instruments - painting - workshop methods - metal working"
> Prepared by the Editorial Staff of Popular Science Monthly, with
> over 1400 Working Drawings, Diagrams, and Illustrations; Grosset
> and Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1937. About a hundred separate
> authors of the articles. Hardback, 342 pages.
> This contains:
> Plating Metal on Wood pages 300-301.
> How to Type-Write Your Name Indelibly on Metal Tools 301.
> It's Easy to Get the Right Current for Electroplating - "use a
> storage battery, make a motor-generator set from two old auto
> generators, construct an electrolytic rectifier for use with a
> lamp blank or step-down transformer, or adopt other simple and
> inexpensive methods". Pages 302-5. There are also articles on
> etching metals.
>                           ...........
> Theophilus discusses the expendable apprentice mercury amalgam
> method in his Divers Arts (Dover). That method is basically for
> dummies or those with more than adequate ventilation and good
> health insurance. ISBN 0486237842  Circa 1122 AD.
>                           ...........
> Herbert Maryon lightly covered Gold on Silver Gilding with Mercury
> Amalgam in his wonderful Metalwork and Enamelling page
> 262. I have the 5th Edition (1971), Dover 22702-2,
> xii + 335pp., 300+ figures, 36 photographs with notes,
> bibliography, tables, notes.
>                          ...............
> Peter James and Nick Thorpe in their book Ancient Inventions;
> Ballantine Books, New York; 1994; ISBN 0345364767 Hardback;
> 675 pages, many illustrations. $29.95; make reference (but
> no illustrations) to ancient batteries being found and
> their possible uses for electoplating in Iraq. I have seen
> these illustrated elsewhere. Basically look like a clay
> handgrenade with internal metal electrodes, activated
> presumably by fruit acids.
>                          ................
> Oppi Untract has covered it in Metal Techniques for Craftsmen -
> A Basic Manual on the Methods of Forming and Decorating
>          Metals - with 769 illustrations, Hardback, 509 pages,
> ISBN 0385030274, my copy 22nd edition, copyright 1968/75.
> and his:
> Jewellery - Concepts and Technology; Doubleday and Co.,\
> Garden City, New York, 1982/85, 3rd Edition, ISBN 0385041853;
> Hardbound, 840 pages, numerous illustrations, covers it
> fairly extensively.
> (These two books are considered Bibles of Modern Metalsmithing
> even though they contain traditional techniques. They are
> quite expensive. My suggestion is you buy them from
> Hamilton Bookseller (on the web) and save a bundle. Back
> when I was checking prices for a friend, the pair were
> $75 less there. http://WWW.HamiltonBook.Com/ )
>                         ...............
> Tim McCreight lightly touches on acid plating Copper onto metal
> in his Complete Metalsmith (a bible for modern metalsmithing -
> this guy is almost always good in every book he writes). He writes
> a few pages more on anodizing aluminum and electro-reactive coloring
> of metals. His Practical Casting Book is also a bible for moderns.
>                          ..............
> The Japanese Bakufu ('Tent Government' of the Tokugawa Shogunate)
> had a sneaky method of depletion gilding of silver which they used
> to enhance their gradually devaluing coinage. They used Plum Vinegar
> to leech the copper off the surface and expose the silver or gold which
> decreased in content percentage with each successive reign. It did
> not fool anyone and of course the older coins were hoarded each time
> and no one wanted to trade in the newer coinage. Many metalsmiths
> died each time they did this by inhaling lead fumes while
> refining the metals for recasting. I once read a document in which
> a government official was commenting on the projected loss of same.
>                          ..............
> Gilding on glass and wood is discussed rather cursorily in
> Singer's History of Technology Volume II. Volume II is medieval.
> Volume III is Renaissance to Industrial Revolution. III has a little.
>                          ..............
> I looked at De Re Metallica by Agricola, but it wasn't obviously
> covered in this large book. I suspect it is in Birringuccio's
> Pyrotechnia, but that is one I do not own.
>                          ..............
> Metal Working, A Book of Tools, Materials, and Processes for
> the Handyman, by Paul N. Hasluck, with 2.206 illustrations and
> working drawings, 760pp., 1907, David McKay, Publisher, 610, South
> Washington Square, Philadelphia. Reprinted by Lindsay Publications,
> P.O. Box 12, Bradley, Illinois 60915-0012, currently available.
> ISBN 1559181265, Hardback. http://www.lindsaybks.com/
> Lindsay Publications, Inc., P.O.Box 538 Bradley, IL 60915-0538
> (fax 815) 935-5447, (815) 935-5353 phone; lindsay at lindsaybks.com
> Other chapters include:
> Foundry Work; Smith's Work; Surfacing Metals; Polishing Metals -
> machines and processes; Annealing, Hardening, and Tempering;
> Drilling and Boring; Taps, Screw-plates, and Dies; Soldering,
> Brazing and Riveting; Forging Iron and Steel; Working Sheet Metal;
> Repouss'e Work; Oriental Decorative Brasswork; Finishing, Lacquering
> and Colouring Brass; Lathes and Lathework; Spinning Metals on the
> Lathe: Tools for Measuring and Testing Metalwork; Building a
> 4 1/2" Center Lathe; Gold and Silver Working; Making a Skeleton
> Clock; Building a Small Horizontal Steam Engine; Boiler Making;
> Building a Petrol Motor; Making Water Motors; ELECTOPLATING 697-711;
> Wire Working; Electic Bell Making; Making a Microscope and Telescope;
> Index. The Gold and Silver chapter includes ancient jewelry including
> Etruscan and Celtic. Very comprehensive for it's time.
>                           .............
>
> Master Magnus Malleus, OL, Atlantia (SCA), GDH, © 2001 R.M. Howe
> *No reposting my writings to newsgroups, especially rec.org.sca, or
> the SCA-Universitas elist. I view this as violating copyright
> restrictions. As long as it's to reenactor or SCA -closed- subscriber
> based email lists, newsletters, or individuals I don't mind.
> It's meant to help people without aggravating me.*
> Inclusion, in the http://www.Florilegium.org/ as always is permitted.

Saint Phlip,
CoD

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And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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