I need to clad plates up to about 9x9". I'd like to use very thin fine silver (.999) plates and clad them to a substrate of some kind... copper, brass, whatever. The plates need to be perfectly flat after cladding.

How do I do this? I know I need some sort of press but I don't even know where to go to begin looking for one.

Thanks!

Silver plate the substrate?? How thick is the silver? substrate?

Dick Z

I have been electroplating but the pieces need to be polished to a very fine reflectivity. The electroplating is .5 mil which can sustain maybe three or four polishes before it wears through.

The substrate that I'm using now is 20 gauge copper but I was thinking that I could switch to 24 gauge brass and silver foil of maybe .5mm to get a thicker silver layer to work with but still maintain a substantial plate.

Possibly I don't comprehend, but isn't .5 mm silver plate the same thikness as .5 mm silver foil? If so, won't that be subjected to the same amount of polishing? Plating, I believe, would be a more secure attachment of the silver than a cladding process like pressing.

Dick Z