[A_Steingrube] has posted a guide to his favorite method of copper electroplating. Plating copper onto other metals is popular with the steampunk crowd, but it does have other uses. Copper plate ...

The basis of the electrode was a steel wire and, for mechanical reasons, some form of iridium plating was necessary. The plating solution detailed below gives a dark grey coherent deposit of ...

Using a process known as mechanical plating or peen plating, he deposits a layer of copper on a PLA print. The results look good, as you can see in the video below. This isn’t electroplating ...

copper, nickel, tin, or zinc, including both precious and non-precious metals. The main components of an electroplating setup include the cathode (the object to be plated), the anode (a metal ...

such as copper(II) sulfate. The anode (positive electrode) is made from impure copper and the cathode (negative electrode) is made from pure copper. Pure copper forms on the cathode. The slideshow ...