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Copper plating aluminum diy.
High quality and safe nickel plating.
There are many objects in our everyday lives that have been plated with other metals.
Simple cheap and reliable way to copper plate metals.
They are very dissimilar metals and don t play nicely.
Electroplating is a process used to coat one metal with that of a separate metal.
However nickel plays nicely with aluminum and copper plays nicely with nickel.
So if you nickel plate first you may be able to get a nice copper plating.
To get the copper to stick to the aluminum foil might be a bit tricky.
We will also be making our own electrolyte from scratch instead of buying chemicals online.
Dip in a 50 percent nitric acid solution.
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Depending on the aluminum alloy sodium bifluoride sulfuric acid or chromic acid may have to be used in conjunction with nitric acid.
A typical process for plating copper on aluminum is.
This is probably the easiest way to create reliable attractive copper plate on many different metals.
Plating can be tricky but this method comes as close.
Just like my popular copper plating instructable the aim of this is to do high quality low cost and safe electroplating.
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