electroless nickel plating and silver solder?

[knowlittle]

I need to have a copper plate electroless nickel plated. But I need to attach a copper tubing to the plate first. I plan to use hard silver solder. Will the solder be a problem during nickel plating? Thanks.

 

[swall]

It can be done. We used to do Elnic on Inconel coiled tube assemblies that were silver brazed (silver soldered)to cast 17-4 end frames. Not sure if any tweaks are needed to the bath parameters. Just let the plater know what metal combos he is working with.

 

[knowlittle]

Thanks for the reply. The only comment from the vendor was not to use a soft solder for potential adhesion strength (of nickel to soft solder). Will go ahead with the hard solder plan. Thanks again.