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Old August 6, 2012, 09:53 PM   #9
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Thanks for the link. I stand corrected. I was confused by Speer's terminology. Bonded core to me has always meant a kind of soldering process. For plating that seems like a stretch of the term as I doubt it causes actual surface alloying as soldering does. But I'm not an electrochemist.

Yes, you can plate alloys just fine. Lots of recipes for plating brass (gilding metal is a low alloy brass) and for putting bronze (copper and tin) on things like your baby shoes (after first spraying them with a conductive paint) have been around for a long time. I've got a couple of old books from between the World Wars with solutions for plating those two alloys described.

I think there must be some kind of electroplating revolution going on in the bullet industry. Hornady's AMP process appears to be electroplating and has not only replaced their handgun FMJ ENC line, but is being used in their Z-max and match bullets. So I know it's possible.
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