Hi,

I stumbled yesterday in a watch magazine on some articles how to get some silverplating on plastic.
You would have to apply some conductive silver paint/precoating first and after that put it in a bowl with some dissolved silver salts and a contra electrode and run some current trough it.

I have never seen any discussion on this method in the forum, any ideas if this would be worth a try. The set is around 40€ so no a huge loss, but if someone already knows this is not working, it saves some money for aquiring new HP toy.

Also I was wondering how did HP do it when it was originally manufacured. Was tho top selectively covered, sprayed with a conductive aerosol and then some silver ions in the air that were by some voltage difference deposited on the plastic, like powder coating?

Kind regards
Ronald

Hello Roland,

My first question: Is this for creating traces for electronics? If so I wonder how glossy or shiny the process would be and how permanent.

The original finish was vacumn plated as with car dashboard plastics.

It would be interesting to see a finished product.

Cheers, Geoff