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Rik Shaw | 01/04/2013 16:58:07 |
![]() 1494 forum posts 403 photos | 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 Gilligan | 03/04/2013 22:55:05 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Rik,
I hadn't seen the term before; but this might help.
MichaelG.
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Ady1 | 04/04/2013 01:52:06 |
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What colour is it? |
Gordon W | 04/04/2013 09:23:25 |
2011 forum posts | I would hazard a guess that it's nickel plated, eg. " rolled gold". |
Rik Shaw | 04/04/2013 09:24:11 |
![]() 1494 forum posts 403 photos | 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 Mandrel | 04/04/2013 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 C | 04/04/2013 11:41:20 |
![]() 7468 forum posts 230 photos | Don't know anything about it, but might it be an electrode for electoplating? Ian S C |
Rik Shaw | 05/04/2013 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
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Malcolm Bannister | 16/05/2015 13:18:27 |
20 forum posts | 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 Shaw | 16/05/2015 23:14:26 |
![]() 1494 forum posts 403 photos | Thanks to Malcom for perpetuating this thread, I feel well plated chaps! Rik |
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