3325 Group rec.crafts.metalworking available: 3316 - 3334 unread: 13 article 3325 16-JAN-1994 16:43:43.24 Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Path: news.tufts.edu!noc.near.net!saturn.caps.maine.edu!dartvax.dartmouth.edu!ne |ws.bu.edu!olivea!nntp.msstate.edu!emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!p |ds16!okunewck From: okunewck@pds16 (Phil OKunewick) Subject: Re: Copper Plateing Message-ID: Sender: news@cse.psu.edu (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: pds16.cse.psu.edu Reply-To: okunewck@cse.psu.edu Organization: Random, at best References: <2h4k6qINN73@bselab.bls.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 18:58:05 GMT Lines: 27 ejk@bselab.bls.com (1111) writes: > >Can anyone give me a recepie fir a solution for plateing >Copper using Copper Sulfate or some other easily found More-? Group rec.crafts.metalworking available: 3316 - 3334 unread: 13 article 3325 16-JAN-1994 16:43:43.24 >chemical ? Oh, copper plating is easy. You can do it even without a battery. Use sulfuric acid and a scrap of copper plumbing pipe. Sulfuric acid is available from any battery supplier. First, polish your object, Clean it with an oil-based solvent, and then ACID CLEAN THE METAL TO BE PLATED and the copper scrap!! If it ain't clean, it won't plate well. Muriatic (hardware-store hydrochloric) or sulfuric acid works well. Next, add some acid to a plating tank of distilled water (5%-10%), connect a wire from the copper scrap to the object to be plated, and immerse both. You'll want to rotate your object occasionally to make it plate evenly. Most metals will copper plate without outside current. But some More-? Group rec.crafts.metalworking available: 3316 - 3334 unread: 13 article 3325 16-JAN-1994 16:43:43.24 metals won't - in that case, hook up a power source and current meter, and adjust the voltage to produce about 1/2 - 1 amp of current. Exact current needed depends on the surface area, and I forget the equation. End article 3325 action: End article 3325 action: 3325End article 3325 action: /copp Searching for: copp Group rec.crafts.metalworking available: 3316 - 3334 unread: 12 article 3330 16-JAN-1994 16:43:57.45 Path: news.tufts.edu!noc.near.net!saturn.caps.maine.edu!dartvax.dartmouth.edu!ne |ws.bu.edu!olivea!charnel!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!msc.edu!m |ckinley.cit.macalstr.edu!Hult From: hult@macalstr.edu (Marc F. Hult) Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Re: Copper Plateing Date: 14 Jan 1994 20:03:14 GMT Organization: Macalester College, Geology Dept., St. Paul, MN 55105 Lines: 20 Sender: Hult@mac.cc.macalstr.edu. Message-ID: <2h6tq3$c8e@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu> References: <2h4k6qINN73@bselab.bls.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stone.geol.macalstr.edu X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu. In article okunewck@pds16 (Phil OKunewick) writes: > ejk@bselab.bls.com (1111) writes: More-? Group rec.crafts.metalworking available: 3316 - 3334 unread: 12 article 3330 16-JAN-1994 16:43:57.45 > > > >Can anyone give me a recepie fir a solution for plateing > >Copper using Copper Sulfate or some other easily found > >chemical ? > > Most metals will copper plate without outside current. But some > metals won't - in that case, hook up a power source and current meter, > and adjust the voltage to produce about 1/2 - 1 amp of current. Exact > current needed depends on the surface area, and I forget the equation. > Check out the current edition of "Midnight Engineering" for this formula and more very practical information on copper plating. Marc F. Hult, Geology Dept., Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105 hult@macalstr.edu 612-696-6441 (voice) 612-696-6122 (fax) End article 3330 action: End article 3330 action: /copp Searching for: copp No articles found End article 3330 action: