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From: Boris Mohar
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:12

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:15:56 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

>I read in sci.electronics.design that Richard Steven Walz
><rstevew@deeptht.armory.com> wrote (in <3dbe394e$0$22477$8eec23a@newsrea
>der.tycho.net>) about 'old thread Re: DIY Soldering iron tips', on Tue,
>29 Oct 2002:
>>Hmmm, I wonder if you can plate or re-plate the copper ones with iron 
>>using a DC supply a nail and ferric chloride in water that we keep 
>>around to etch PCB's??? 
>
>AIUI, it is unexpectedly difficult to plate iron. The plating solutions
>normally used are quite complex: iron tetrafluoroborate is one salt
>used. I would expect that a ferrous salt, rather than a ferric, would be
>appropriate, but it may be that hydrolysis prevents proper working. 
>
>A Google search shows that the process of iron plating copper bits is
>'proprietary', and very little information is openly available about
>iron plating of anything.

 So it is.  I have a bunch of still functioning Metcal tips that have the
iron plating worn off.  I would be very interested in finding a good
method for replaitng.  Might try nickel even if it does not last as long.

Regards,

Boris Mohar
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs

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