Phoenix Gold Phorum

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:25 am**

Just thinking out loud more than anything sensible...

What is the surface of the circuit board made of inside MS amps? Is it a blend of copper and brass? It's kind of gold-ish in colour but a little dull.

Anyway the other week I was reading about a process where someone had chrome items on a car coated in real gold. I think it was a portable hand held electrolysis tool of some sort.

So... I was wondering if it was possible to gold plate the circuit board tracks in an amp? Maybe by using some sort of hand held tool with careful precision? Obviously it would be utter madness to strip an amp of every single components and send it off for coating!

Thoughts?

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:01 am**

I see ya took the phorum t-shirt logo for yer avatar.......

I've always been told it was gold.....very little gold but still gold.

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:06 am**

No, I redrew it in photoshop from the original - taken from an amps endplate. (It was then inverted, turned greyscale, with the cable drawn using stroked paths).

I'd be interested to see the t-shirts though?

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:21 am**

"Phorum Swag" in the loung..........

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:27 am**

they are 24ct gold 'plated', most likely about 100 millionth of an inch thick

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:31 am**

Ahh, they look pretty good

Although I see the original RCA connector has been changed. It looks a bit cleaner than the original version, for use on a t-shirt I guess. Although some of the cables key lines look a bit wonky on the corner radius. If I were doing artwork for print I'd redraw it in Freehand MX or illustrator

Back on topic...

Oh thanks Marco. I will have a bit of a polish and see if it comes up more shiny!

Can anyone recommend a cleaning product? Perhaps lighter fuel?

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:40 am**

good ol Isoprol alcohol will clean fine

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:45 pm**

anyone ever considered one of those jewelry polishing cloths?

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:34 pm**

Most metal polishes will strip the gold electroplate right off, stick with the iso as said earlier in the post...I found out the hard way trying to polish up a gold plated batt terminal..

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:12 pm**

spit and polish FTW!

Posted: **Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:06 am**

marko wrote:spit and polish FTW!

I hope you're just kidding......or I'll never buy one of your amps.

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:52 am**

He didn't say where he was spitting from either eewwwww

Phoenix Gold Phorum

REAL Gold circuit boards

REAL Gold circuit boards