The invention provides a preparation method of a rod-shaped
tin oxide-reinforced silver-based
electric contact material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1), preparing a stannous
salt solution with certain concentration and an
oxalic acid solution with certain concentration; (2), taking a certain amount of stannous
salt solution and
oxalic acid solution according to the
molar ratio of stannous salt to
oxalic acid, and mixing to react for certain time; (3), separating out reaction precipitates by
centrifugation, and
drying the reaction precipitates to obtain a stannous
oxalate precursor; (4) incinerating the stannous
oxalate precursor to obtain
putty powder; (5), preparing silver-coated
tin oxide compound power by taking the
putty powder and
silver nitrate as raw materials according to a chemical
coating method; (6) hot-pressing the compound
powder into a blank; (7), hot-extruding the blank into a rod; and (8) drawing the rod into a wire material. According to the method, the rod-shaped
putty powder is high in yield and high in purity, and the process is simple; the rod-shaped
tin oxide is distributed in a
electric contact wire material in an oriented manner along the drawing direction; the prepared
electric contact material is high in rigidity and has favorable electric
conductivity,
welding resistance and
arc erosion resistance.