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I'm looking to electroplate brass rings with gems glued on top of them (though I believe this is then considered electroforming as the copper builds on the glue or epoxy and around the ring and gem?).
What I'd like to know is:
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(They have other smaller rectifiers, all have US plugs but do not state the plug outlet voltage. I live in Australia and need to be sure I can use an adaptor (not a converter) to plug into a 220v outlet).
If I use brass rings do I need to paint them first with a copper conductive paint? What if I want to eventually do silver plating? Would brass be okay to silver plate? I know I would need a different bath for that though, I'm just thinking of possibilities for the future.
Instead of using a copper conductive paint could I instead make my bath with copper sulphate, sulphuric acid and distiled water mixed together?
This is the copper sulphate I am currently using for the bath: http://www.bunnings.com.au/manutec-500g-copper-sulphate-soluble_p Is this pure enough? For my anode can I use a 99% pure copper sheet to will only 100% suffice?
Lastly, do I need to agitate the bath continually? I wouldn't mind a slightly organic look and have read that without agitation this will happen but I do not know to what extent.
I have experimented with copper plating a silver plated ring but the copper did not build up and part of the ring was eaten way at. I used the copper sulphate and boiling water for the bath, a copper pipe for the anode, and hooked the leads up to a 6 volt battery which attached to the anode and my cathode was a copper wire which wrapped around the ring. Not sure where I went wrong if it was the wrong type of copper sulphate, if I need conductive paint, a rectifier instead of a battery or what. Any assistance anyone could provide would be so very greatly appreciated. I've done so much research but am still at a bit of a loss as to what I need to improve upon to make the process work. I'm very keen to start plating my own jewelry.
Hello, here is my new dilema, always something to buy.
I hate to admit this but my culture for some reasons evryone wants a shiny ,bling, if you can call it that, firearm. Ive been learning how to polish, to a high luster. Ive been blessed that my local ffl/gunsmith is a 4th generation gunsmith. Ive been learning how to polish with leather, yep how colt used to do it in the old days, so interesting, but enough about that.
We got to talking, and want to split the bill and learn how to plate, basically nickle and eventually gold. Ive been looking at casewell plating, they seem to be the only ones with a class its an online class consisting of videos and literature. They sell a start up kit that includes a 3 amp rectifier, i know thats not enough. So the next step up is a 5 amp and then the jump to a 30 amp.
According to caswell the 5amp should be good for firearms like a full size .
Should I buy the rectifier from them or is there a better source, which should i get, i believe he told me there is a 300 dollar difference.
What are your thoughts over all with casewell and the online course?
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