Filler material for Nickel plating

[Drjones]

I am working on a project that involves using electroless nickel plating on aluminum parts. Some of these parts have .1-.5 wide troughs, for instrumentation, that need to be filled and plated over for a uniform appearance. I am looking for a conductive, epoxy-like material that can fill these gaps smoothly and accept the nickel plating. I am trying to avoid the cost/lead time of plating the parts, soldering the gaps, than replating...

The only product I have found, so far, that seems applicable was called TRA-DUCT 2705 made by Tra-Con Inc. I can't find out much about it or where to by it though.

http://www.matweb.com/search/datasheet.aspx?matguid=c0ff3440272a4a5a931fb823afddb831

Hopefully this problem has come up before and someone here has some good ideas...

 

[btrueblood]

Google is not working?

 

[Drjones]

I guess I'm not using the right queries...were u able to find the answer easily with a search engine btrueblood?

 

[MagMike]

Here is a link to Tra-Con:

http://www.ellsworth.com/tracon.html

-Mike

 

[Drjones]

Yea, I was on that page but Ellsworth isn't a distributor for that particular product line...

I've found some other possibilities I will probably try:

http://www.ellsworth.com/display/productdetail.html?productid=576&Tab=Pr

http://www.mcmaster.com/#catalog/115/3347

Anybody work with similar epoxies? Let me know