Silver conducts electricity. Any silver-coated surface, whether it is plastic, ceramic or glass, is electrically active. Once the surface is silvered, you can powder coat it or electroplate it. You can use any of our mirror kits to silver any non-metallic surface if you would like to electroplate your car part with real chrome. Caswell Plating sells many types of kits for small scale electroplating.
Conductive paints often change the gloss and texture of the surface. Our silver does not does not change the original texture of the surface in any way. It does not make a rough surface smooth or a dull surface shiny.
In this photo, the multimeter shows that the resistance across this silvered leaf is 75.3 ohms.
When the object has a good coat of nickel, you can buff it to a high shine with jeweler's rouge and a polishing wheel before brush or tank plating it with other metals.
For chrome plating, first silver the object, then nickel plate it, then chrome plate it. Unlike "spray chrome", this process does not require a protective top coat.
The silver coat you get from our mirroring chemicals is too thin for brush plating. If you want to brush plate an object, you must tank plate it with nickel first.
When you coat a plastic part with silver, you do not need to heat it to make the powder coating stick. Just dry the silver completely and apply the powder coating directly over the bare silver.
The silvering process below is shown from time stamp 1:40 to 2:08.