Frogwatch wrote:
Sales of expensive x-ray instruments is not going well in this economy
so I am starting a new business, Mobile Marine Plating, Inc. will
specialize in re-plating small marine parts with anti-corrosive and
decorative metal plating while the parts are in place via "brush
plating". This means we will go to a boat and coat corroded parts
with electroplated nickel or bronze or even gold. Larger numbers of
parts can be brought back to the lab for polishing en masse and re-
coating.
My specialty is nickel plating but one of the most interesting ones is
an electroless nickel coating that has hexagonal boron nitride in it
to give ti lubricating properties along with the anti-corrosion
properties. Think about steel or Aluminum parts that are subject to
wear and corrosion where a coating about .00020" thick would be
helpful.
I am getting tired of hanging out with scientists anyway and want to
hang out in marinas. Will probably start off coating local parts but
will branch out into offshore oil stuff.


Well...all but one piece of "hardware" I've had on every boat I've owned
for the past 20 years has been stainless steel, and it always cleaned up
nicely.

I presume you wirebrush off existing corrosion on hardware you want to
spiff up...what do you do about pits?

BTW, there are lots of quality gold-toned fishing reels from Shimano and
others where the plating has worn off.

They look like this:

http://fish.shimano.com/publish/cont...itcasting.html


The reels are still perfectly serviceable, but could use dressing up.
There must be a ka-zillion quality reels that could benefit from a
recoating.

Doubt you could do it on site, though.