You can purchase this kit as it is or if you wish, you can use it as a guide to put together your own bespoke kit. Click on the items in the list to see detailed product information.
At the heart of the Gold Brush Plating Kit is the EasyPlater, a power source that we at Spa Plating have designed and built in-house. It is very straightforward to use, compact and lightweight and we have designed it specifically for our brush and pen plating process.
Gold plating a stainless steel mobile phone cover with our gold brush plating budget kit. To find out more about gold brush plating, please see our manual HERE for guidance. This kit (or any of our other kits, equipment or solutions) is not suitable for plating on to aluminium or titanium and therefore can’t be used to plate iPhones and other similar products.
Cleanliness apart, whether the surface you’re plating on is matt or shiny is also something to consider. If the surface is matt then your plated layer will also be matt; no amount of brush plating will turn it shiny. So if you want a shiny plated layer you will need to ensure the surface you start out with is shiny.
NB If you want to achieve a vermeil standard layer of plated gold over large areas then you will need to gold tank plate with our Gold Tank Plating Kit.
Here is a video showing the contents of this kit being used to
gold brush plate on stainless steel.
Gold brush plating on textured silver
This video shows using the EasyPlater to gold plate on aluminium;
EasyPlater – unique to Spa Plating, an easy to use power source designed and made in-house expressly for our pen and brush plating process.
Gold Plating Solution – Gold content 8 grams per litre, made in-house by Spa Plating.
Platinum electrode – ideal for gold plating, long-lasting.
Swabs – made from materials best suited to brush plating – manufacture and design exclusive to Spa Plating. Each swab can be re-used many times – just rinse thoroughly between plating stages.
MPU – one stage cleaning and activating product. Activates and cleans all in one stage – can be used during the plating process.
MetaSeal – brings out the final lustre of your work, seals in the shine and slows tarnishing.
Here you'll find in one handy table, the basic technical data you need to know about our most popular brush plating solutions. It covers;
- its correct voltage
- what the plating solution is most commonly used for
- the best pre-treatments depending on the base metal
- the right electrode to use with it
Please remember that the information on this page is for brush plating only. If you need information about pen or tank plating, please see the other sections in this manual that deal with these areas.
Decorative applications for example jewellery, antiques, bathroom furniture. Used for functional applications such as electrical contacts as it’s a good conductor of electricity.
Used only as an undercoat for many other plating solutions. Useful for providing a key layer for subsequent gold plating on difficult to plate surfaces such as stainless steel.
Decorative finish on many items for example sculpture. Functional applications for example building up a thick layer to fill in scratches on printing machinery or scratches on decorative items (eg. silver plated antiques) for polishing back and subsequent silver plating.
Decorative finish on white gold jewellery instead of more expensive rhodium or platinum. Also plated on to silver jewellery to reduce tarnishing and scratching. Used as hypoallergenic replacement for nickel. Makes a good barrier layer when plating gold on to copper.
Decorative finish on bathroom furniture. Used to re-plate white gold wedding rings. Should not be used on exterior fittings as brush plating alone provides minimum protection from the external environment.
Copper and brass
stainless steel, nickel and its alloys
white bronze
Gold Flash
Carbon
Black Chrome 6-8v Temp; 25 degrees centigrade minimum
Decorative finish on items such as bathroom furniture. Should not be used on exterior fittings as brush plating alone provides minimum protection from the external environment.
Copper and brass
stainless steel, nickel and its alloys
white bronze
Gold Flash
Nickel plating
General guide;
Certain small items, for example Swabs, Nibs and Plating Pens can be sent by normal post within the UK
The courier option for UK deliveries is FedEx
Free UK mainland delivery available on orders over £200
International orders usually 3-5 working days.
For all price quotations for deliveries, please add your items to our shopping cart. You will be able to see the shipping costs by clicking on the ‘Calculate shipping’ button in the cart and before checking out.
You can access our MSDS by scanning the QR code which is on our product bottles.
Here is a video to show you how;
Q;
I have a saxophone that requires re-plating of the silver finish. Do you offer a brush kit suitable for this project?
thanks!
A;
Thank you for your enquiry.
If the silver finish is only worn in a few places, then you could touch it up with the Budget Kit, but it sounds like it needs complete re-plating by immersion in a silver plating bath.
It may therefore be the best idea to take it to a professional electroplating shop for silver plating.
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