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Rik Shaw01/04/2013 16:58:07
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My unusual 50p car boot find today is a bar of strange looking metal 8" x 1" x .5" thick. It was only when I looked at one end I could see it had been stamped "ROLLED NICKEL".

I have never come across this stuff before so the question is........what do model engineers do with rolled nickel?

Michael Gilligan03/04/2013 22:55:05
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Rik,

I hadn't seen the term before; but this might help.
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Ady104/04/2013 01:52:06
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What colour is it?

Gordon W04/04/2013 09:23:25
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I would hazard a guess that it's nickel plated, eg. " rolled gold".

Rik Shaw04/04/2013 09:24:11
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Ady - The colour of the bar is odd. It is overall very light matt grey with a hint of green/blue and almost opalescent. Whoever had it before me had hacksawed of a small piece leaving a finish no different to stainless or mild steel. - Rik

Stub Mandrel04/04/2013 11:18:43
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Nickel is corrosion resistant, it sounds like the outside of your bar has tarnished, but the cut face is still fresh.

Neil

Ian S C04/04/2013 11:41:20
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Don't know anything about it, but might it be an electrode for electoplating? Ian S C

Rik Shaw05/04/2013 12:25:02
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Ian - the odd tarnishing on the surface of the bar might well have got there from it sitting in a bath of electrolyte. "Rolled Nickel" suggests to me that this is pure nickel and not a nickel alloy. So all in all I reckon you could well be correct with your "plating electrode" suggestion. Thanks for your nickel ode Ian smiley>>

Malcolm Bannister16/05/2015 13:18:27
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Rik...

Pure nickel is ferromagnetic and when tarnished does indeed have that weird colour that you describe.

Ian's probably right in thinking it's an electrode (anode iirc) for nickel plating.

M

Rik Shaw16/05/2015 23:14:26
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Thanks to Malcom for perpetuating this thread, I feel well plated chaps!

Rik

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