Engraving nickle plated Alum.

**Bert Kemp** · 03-11-2014, 2:47 PM

I did a forum search on this and really couldn't find an answer, maybe I posed the search question wrong, how ever can anyone tell me if you can engrave or technically I guess remove nickle plating from Alum. Thanks

**Scott Shepherd** · 03-11-2014, 2:51 PM

You can Cermark it. Cermark has stuck fairly well to Nickel plated things I have done in the past.

**Bert Kemp** · 03-11-2014, 2:56 PM

Originally Posted by Scott Shepherd

You can Cermark it. Cermark has stuck fairly well to Nickel plated things I have done in the past.

Thanks Scott, thats pretty much what I thought, but someone asked me if a laser would remove the nickle plating , had to ask.

**Dan Hintz** · 03-11-2014, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by Bert Kemp

someone asked me if a laser would remove the nickle plating

Generally no... the only caveat would be if the plating was so bad it was peeling, at which point you could likely burn it off (or scrape it off in 1/10th the time).

**Bert Kemp** · 03-11-2014, 3:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dan Hintz

Generally no... the only caveat would be if the plating was so bad it was peeling, at which point you could likely burn it off (or scrape it off in 1/10th the time).

Now that wouldn't be very good would it LOL

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