Copper Plating Steel Diy

As far as the legality of plating coins to my understanding it is legal as long as you 1 aren t removing metal from the coins with intent to sell that metal 2 are not trying to pass them as something they are not ie a copper plated dime is worth 10 cents nothing more and 3 aren t defacing the coins for malicious intent.

Copper plating steel diy.

High quality and safe nickel plating. Electroplating is a process used to coat one metal with that of a separate metal. Simple cheap and reliable way to copper plate metals. There are many objects in our everyday lives that have been plated with other metals.

I want to set up a home school experiment for my son about electroplating. If i fill a four inch steel pipe cap with copper sulfate and use a battery in the solution and the battery pole connected to the steel pipe cap will the inside of the cap become coated. We will also be making our own electrolyte from scratch instead of buying chemicals online. This video is just an extra info video for the nickel copper plating video at.

Just like my popular copper plating instructable the aim of this is to do high quality low cost and safe electroplating. Gold plated jewelry nickel and copper plated coins etc.