Because it's rubbish, it looks cheap and nasty, because well, it's cheap and nasty.
Looks okay if the paint is the same colour as whatever is behind the bolt, but it is a cheap solution, the best solution is new bolts, I've never seen plating look very good unless it was done at the factory.
Once you're set up it's not ever so complicated with nickel but you really need a tumbler to prep them, an etching bath+power supply and a plating tank+agitator+rectifier/power supply and chemicals. Then you need to know current/time for the etching (you can just watch it fizz for a minute) then current/timing for the thickness of plating you want. You might want to coat the threads to stop them changing diameter as the nickel will 'fatten them up'. An ultrasonic degreaser wouldn't go amiss either. You might want an extract hood too.Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:07 pm We copper plated a compass in Chemistry at High School in 1982, I remember it being pretty easy.
It depends, is it the electroplating that put me on my death bed?Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:43 pm on your death bed do you want to be the man who taught himself electro plating or the man who paid some one to do it?
Possibly, of course you could be like my father, make up anecdotes to impress other people, tell them so often that you end up believing them your self and believe you're the person you wanted to be when you die. Weirdly people believed his outlandish stories over the truth, he told people I was in the SAS, no matter how many times I deny it they don't believe me, I wasn't even in the Army.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:47 pmIt depends, is it the electroplating that put me on my death bed?Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 8:43 pm on your death bed do you want to be the man who taught himself electro plating or the man who paid some one to do it?
Electroplated with titanium FTW! Steel tensile strength, titanium bling!
It's pretty much impossible. Not totally but almost).
