The invention discloses a silver plating method for an
electric contact. The silver plating method for the
electric contact includes the following steps that firstly, surface oil removing and
rust removing treatment is performed on the
electric contact, and cleaning and
drying are performed; secondly, the electric contact is placed in a plating chamber, then the plating chamber is vacuumized to 10<-5>Pa to 10<-4>Pa, then
argon gas is introduced, and the vacuum degree is kept smaller than 2Pa; thirdly, a pulse Ag target power source and a pulse
negative bias power source are started to performion bombardment cleaning on the electric contact; fourthly, the gas discharging
current density of a
cathode is adjusted to be in micro arc discharging, silver plating is performed through a micro arcion plating method with the
current density larger than 0.1 A / cm<2> and smaller than 1 A / cm<2>, and the silver plating time is 1-2 h, and the silver plated electric contact is obtained; and fifthly,temperature lowering and cooling are performed, and after temperature lowering along a furnace is performed till
room temperature is achieved, the silver plated electric contact is taken out. Silver plating treatment is performed on the electric contact through the micro arc
ion plating method, and the beneficial effects of environment friendliness, better clad layer
binding force, high efficiencyand the like are achieved.