Glock 19 Pistol DIPPED IN 24K GOLD - Gold Plating Gun Slides

hello everybody this is rob with gold plating services and i've got a really exciting video for you today we are going to be gold plating this bad boy this is a glock 19 gen 3. it's made out of 416r stainless steel and before we get started i want to give a special shout out to the tactical store they are out in port st lucie in florida and they provided this slide they made it it's 416r stainless steel they start with a rectangular block they do the special cuts they do the windows the side serrations the optica for the optics and they engrave as you can see here's their logo it's the tactical store they're a great place and uh we're really excited to plate this slide for him today this again is stainless steel but the process we're going to be following is going to be exactly the same as you would do if it were regular mild steel just going to quickly show you this is the prolab we have five stations set up here but this one right here we're just going to be leaving it out of the equation today i've got a power rectifier up here for the first two and the other for the last two we've got electric cleaner trival gold strike bright nickel plating solution and finally the 24k bright gold solution let's get it going this has been a long-awaited video and uh i'm really excited for it and a lot of our customers and potential customers are as well so the first thing we're gonna do is get it going in the electric cleaner here this is a very critical step to the whole process if you do not electroclean it good enough you will not get good adhesion you'll get the gold to deposit but you're not going to have it stick basically it will wipe off if you don't sufficiently electroclean is probably the biggest mistake that people make when doing stainless steel i've got set at 5 volts here it looks like we're pulling about 9.4 amps that will vary just depending on the size of the item how far it is from the anode what not this kit is awesome and we've had a lot of requests to do a gunslide and so this is a very special video and i hope you guys enjoy it and on top of that we couldn't be doing a cooler slide i think so this particular step we're going to leave it for probably about a minute and a half i like to at least do a minute and a half next we'll be going to this solution which is the tri-vel um it's not going to be in there long so i'll talk about it real quick while it's in the electroclean this is an acid-base solution that attacks the stainless steel bringing down the layer of chromium oxide which is what keeps stainless steel from corroding like regular steel the chromium oxide typically makes it really difficult to plate onto but what this does is the acid in the solution attacks the surface bringing down that layer and then simultaneously deposits a little bit of gold now you could use woods nickel strike instead of the trival gold strike but i like the gold strike a lot better because you can actually see it with a wood's knuckle strike you cannot see the deposit i think we're probably good on cleaning here and i'll show you why i like trevel because when you see that the gold is tinted or the part is tinted gold you know you have a good strike so what i'm going to do here is check it out see right here i got a water break we don't want that so i'm gonna go longer in the electric cleaner here and if there's a water break like that and you move forward you will have a discoloration or an adhesion issue um what you do to check for adhesion when you're done is actually take a piece of scotch tape believe it or not put it on rip it off there's bad adhesion the gold will come off but that's one of the telltale signs sometimes you'll still get a water break no matter how much you electro clean it and that's just because it may be the shape the surface geometry but in this case i do feel like it was a little bit short on the electroclean so i'm just going to go a little bit longer after we do the gold strike it will be tinted gold and then we will go into the bright nickel the bright nickel is a heated solution 130 is good 120 to 140 is where people run it i like 130. what this does is when you when you look at the slide it's got little scratches in it they did a great job of polishing it but there are little micro scratches in it the bright nickel will fill those in to a point you know if it's bad enough it won't but the scratches that are in this i believe will be completely gone after we've right nickel plated and it just brings it to a even brighter luster so let's check out that area again now see now there's no no water break happening there it's probably hard to see but since this is such an important slide i'm just going to go in for another probably 15 20 seconds just for good measure you really can't overdo this step but you can under do it so again yeah those those scratches will be filled in by the bright nickel the longer you leave it in the thicker the nickel gets the more it levels it's called a leveling effect typically people don't nickel plate stainless steel but that's if it has the finish you already want in this case they want to be able to make up for a little bit of scratches here and there so they asked that i bright nickel plate it okay we're going to move forward okay now watch what happens on this strike here and put it in and you just kind of move it around like you're stirring tea if you will when the gun's already a little bit or the slides are a little tinted gold i'm going to go just a little longer and that's good i want to keep it submerged in the water as much as possible but i'm going to show you see now it's already tinted gold but it you may not be able to tell from the video it's not super gold but it's just enough that what it does is seal off the stainless steel and we'll keep it from reforming that layer of chromium oxide that would keep this bright nickel from typically depositing now over here i've got this one set to 2.8 volts that's where i'm going to brighten the plate out and let's let it do its magic this is going to be a quite long step i'm gonna leave it in there for three or four minutes so i'll go ahead and pause the video while it's in there and we'll resume once we're at that point all right guys it's it's only been in there for two minutes but while we're waiting last year i want to talk about the kid a little so tons of people want to do guns it's very popular right now and this kit has just made it so simple but i want to show you the behind the scenes of it so the power comes down comes into this we call these the power tower okay this right here is a sensor that goes down in and checks the temperature of the solution constantly this right here is wired inside to here which carries the negative current and also you can plug a wire in i like to do both technically this bus bar will conduct electricity but i always like to make sure it's solid these anode frames and you'll be able to see it better in here go down inside and are really really nice if you've ever tried to rig up a an anode before because usually you have to either hang them over the edge or something it connects to this which is the positive so that wire comes in sends the black here red here and then we have our jumpers in between this jumpers the two power towers together each tower has a controllable voltage it's really easy you just click set change the temperature push that again it will adjust accordingly i want to keep my electric cleaner at 130 so i'm going to set it back this is room temperature so we don't worry about it but it's still on anyway right here you'll notice the red one's disconnected so what that does is they all share the same black the common but the positive current stops here so from that power rectifier up there um now this one is connected to this power supply the nice thing about this is the bright nickel and the gold have the same voltage and the electrocleaner and trival have the same voltage as each other so that i don't even ever have to touch the voltage i just go through i mean if you're running lots of parts you literally just move through the process timing your steps and that's about it um this little thing right here is a heater that so this senses the temperature kicks this on when it needs it there's our time let's check it out let's just see how it looks oh yeah it looks great i'll leave it in for one more minute while we talk for a sec there is a round black heater here that heats the beaker and then this is insulation that keeps the temperature in in this case we've got a bag nickel anode that keeps the nickel anode as it breaks down from getting debris floating around in your right nickel so it's really a really brilliant design this tube here is the air it's got a little throttle on it so i can turn it up or down just by twisting this knob uh you need air agitation for your bright nickel if you don't you'll get white ugly cloudy deposit and the gold has their agitation as well the air pump in this case comes to this little thing here where i can also control um okay let's pull it out it's bright nickel plated let's take a look at it [Music] that looks good it's not too dramatic because you know i'm actually gonna go a little bit longer and the reason being is there's some deeper scratches that i think will fill right in i'm going to leave it in there for just a couple more minutes and when we come back we will gold plate it all right so it's been another minute um i wanted to talk a little bit more if this were a mild still slide you would have to bright nickel plate it if you don't once you strip the bluing coating cerakote whatever it may be you have exposed nick um steel that will rest some steels will rest within hours if you just go straight to gold at that point you will get rusting underneath your gold if you right nickel plate it it seals it off and we call that a diffusion barrier absolutely critical again with stainless steel that's not nearly as important um most people don't write nickel plate stainless steel but this is a a test and actually it's something you could just make a normal part of your routine a lot of stuff that if you were to buy a slide that's stainless steel it either has like a matte texture or is already mirror finished shiny and you would just go straight to the gold you just electroclean strike gold all right we're just going to call it good at this point i think it looks great really shiny nice nickel deposit and it's hard to tell a difference because it was stainless steel to begin with but if it wasn't you would really see if this would have been like a dull mild steel you would really see that point okay so now we're in the gold gold is 2.8 volts 100 degrees this is a hardened 24 karat gold i deposits 99.7 plus real gold yes it is real gold i get asked that every single day multiple times and it is real gold the way it works is it has nothing to do with the purple it just probably just looks dark to you but it is a nice beautiful purple solution the gold is actually looks like table salt and when you pour it into water to make the solution it dissolves really quickly that salt is now dissolved in the water you add the other makeup components the purple is actually a brightener and hardener and that makes it up to three times harder than say a pure soft gold would be which we do have what happens is is when the cath the anode has the positive electricity the cathode has the negative and when you send the electricity through it the gold ions are attracted to the cathode which in this case is your piece it also plates this little rack um you know there are ways you can coat the rack so that it doesn't but in this case it's so small it doesn't matter the gold is going to be depositing at a rate of about 1 micron every 6 minutes if you're using our our a fully concentrated bath one micron also known as 40 micro inches is a very thick plate relatively you can go as thick as two and a half microns and on this particular site i am going to i'm going to be plating it as thick as possible so i'm going to leave it in there about 15 minutes the thicker it is the longer it lasts period people say does it scratch yes stainless steel scratches anything scratches does it wear down yes it's even though it's metal it does and gold's particularly soft but really any metal will wear down over where the most important things are put it on thick don't scratch it like intentionally and it will hold up a long time um two and a half microns man i mean this slide could stay gold plated indefinitely who knows 100 years if it's used every single day it's gonna wear off a lot quicker if it's not used very often and you just hung it on a wall it'd stay gold forever anyway i'll be back in about 15 minutes we'll check it out we'll show you the finished product before we do i just want to say i get this question quite a bit this is a kit that we make we literally hand make everything here short of the glass and the plastic everything but we assemble them we make them uh at gold plating services visit our website www.goldplating.com check out our other videos we make our solutions and i'm telling you there's really nothing else like this out there so to the people who want to know yes this is this is gold plating services kit equipment made by us and we hope you enjoy these videos that we make for you to support our products all right the moment of truth guys you ready to see it or what i am unhook this and here we go oh yeah look at that looking good and get it rinsed off here and take a look at it that thing looks great now what i'll do and take it and dry it off and we'll get some pictures of it send it to these guys and i will show you the finished product at the end of the video i'll just put some nice pictures in here for you well thanks for watching guys um again this is gold plating services and this slide was from the tactical store and go check out their website they're a great company they have really good products they do really good work and we were excited to do this slide for them this is the prolab check down in the description go to goldplating.com and go to products and click on prolab it's the best thing out there for doing this stuff hope you guys enjoyed have a nice day you

Channel: Gold Plating Services

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Keywords: 24k, gold, electroplating, gold plating services, gold plating

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Length: 18min 25sec (1105 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 25 2020