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  1. Take 2 on printing these damn coins. The first attempt failed just before this point.

    Cleaning the plate with those itty bitty stars on it made out of springy PLA meant little tiny plastic shurikens went everywhere.

    Yeah, we're gonna have to vacuum today. Upside, maybe we'll also get to have a first go at electroplating a print today, too.

    #3DPrinting #electroplating #Making #DIY

  2. the bits i plated yesterday i started in with the much lower voltages and more time and was pretty happy with the result so hopefully that'll keep being true

    but will it keep away the rust? that's what i actually care about here most

    #electroplating

  3. trying to get better with the electroplating mostly by electroplating leftover bike trailer parts that don’t matter anymore

    #electroplating

  4. Blowtorching Electroplated 3D Prints For Good Reason - What if you electroplated a plastic 3D print, and then melted off the plastic to l... - hackaday.com/2025/06/30/blowto #3dprinterhacks #electroplating #blowtorch #copper

  5. I'm going to have to just blue this spring after all:

    mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/

    The reason is that while I could get nickel onto most of it, there are parts that were just too close together and/or too far away (chemically) from the donor plate to get nickel onto without way more complicated shenanigans than I'm going to muster.

    This means inside the coil. Also where the coils rest against each other, but mostly the inside.

    I think this'll be fine overall, but it definitely shows limits to my current nickel-plating setup. The outside looks real good but the spring gets wet and you dry it, there's more rust coming from the inside of the spring and that's not okay.

    So, bluing it is.

    #BikeTooter #BikeTrailer #diy #maker #electroplating

  6. Honestly pleased with this, this was just a chunk of rust when I got it. I didn't even know if it was salvagable and kind of doubted it.

    #electroplating #BikeTrailer #diy #maker

  7. three minutes per side, no sanding really - this is just about water resistance. i sanded a little after this (600 grit wet) and am going for two more minutes per side at 3.5 volts

    #diy #maker #BikeTrailer #electroplating

  8. so if your vinegar-based nickel plating solution gets real dark and doesn't plate as well but is still very clear, can you just add more vinegar? does that work?

    #diy #maker #electroplating #nickel

  9. A plating we will go, a plating we will go, high ho the nickel plating we will go.🎶

    Needed some silver tone tie tack clutch backs, but only had some gold tone on hand. So nickel plating to the rescue.

    1st time nickel plater. Prepared the nickel acetate solution last night.

    Cleaned the parts using my small sonicator and some hot soapy water. Rinsed and handled with gloves to prevent contamination with finger oil.

    Hooked the tie tack back to the cathode (negative) side of my power supply using some cooper wire. Small part, so set the voltage to 3V. Plated for a couple of minutes while swirling and rotating the piece. Turned out perfect for my needs. 🎉 #electroplating

  10. Bubble, bubble toil and trouble. Wha Ha Haaa! ⚗️⚡️

    Just a little electrochemistry. Preparing a nickel acetate solution to do some nickel plating. 😁 #electroplating

  11. I think the washers may have originally been chromed, not nickelled. But more importantly they are no longer _rust_, which was my goal. xD

    #diy #electronics #electroplating

  12. DIY diamond-coated grinding tool :)

    SEM photo before and after coating process. The tool is ~0.4mm diameter, and has a thin layer of diamond + tungsten disulfide nickel electroplated onto it. Using this for some glass micromachining tests

    #cnc #micromachining #sem #electroplating

  13. Electroplated 3D Printed Sword: Shiny! - We all want to 3D print metals, but the equipment to do that is still beyond most ... - hackaday.com/2022/11/24/electr #3dprinterhacks #electroplating #3dprinting

  14. Electroplating 3D Printed Parts for Great Strength - Resin 3D printers have a significant advantage over filament printers in that they are able to pri... - hackaday.com/2021/03/01/electr #3dprinterhacks #electroplating #3dprinter #stiffness #strength #copper #nickel #metal #resin