Just FYI....
www.caswell.com has gold plating solution (VERY expensive)....
no experience here with using the gold, but I've used
their silver plating solution with good results.
I purchased just the solution and made my own regulated DC power supply
with an output of just 1.7V with a input of 12V which I get from a
battery. Same thing with the required "brush", which is nothing more
than a slender piece of stainless steel that you wrap a very small, porous
cloth around near one end. Connect the stainless to the + side and the
negative on the work and you're good to go. No nasty fumes either,
just wear some common sense protective gloves and safety glasses.
Charlie
On 19 Sep 2016 09:10:33 -0700 "
yahoo@... [Homebrew_PCBs]" <
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com> writes:
Hello All,
Has anyone come across an inexpensive way to gold plate some connector contacts on a PCB (or for that matter connector pins?). There are some kits in the jewelry space selling on Amazon for several hundreds of dollars, which is a bit pricey for an experiment.
Thanks,
Andrew