Axel Werner
13Electroplating 3D Prints Without Requiring a Big Vat https://hackaday.com/2026/05/18/electroplating-3d-prints-without-requiring-a-big-vat/
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@iFixit sometimes the tips are old and used and the plating has been damaged over the years/decades. the companies and/or products are no more, no more spare parts, but the iron is still good. Then what ? What about tipps on how to "repair" the "electro plating" of the tip ? #repair #electroplating
Electroplating 3D Prints Without Requiring a Big Vat
ety://glyphscribeTake 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.
Olly 👾
Painting in Metal with Selective Electroplating.
Most research on electroplating tries to find ways to make it plate parts more uniformly. [Ajc150] took the opposite direction, though, with his selective electroplating project, which uses an electrode mounted on a CNC motion system to electrochemically print images onto a metal sheet.
https://github.com/ajc150/Selective-Electroplating/tree/main
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Mathrubhumi EnglishThe Vigilance and Security Wing of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) on Thursday recorded the statements of officials from Smart Creation, a Chennai-based firm responsible for the electroplating of gold-clad plates on the Dwarapalakas (guardian deity) idols at Sabarimala. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/sabarimala-gold-row-vigilance-electroplating-firm-statement-kjssvb3e?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Sabarimalagoldrow #Dwarapalakaidols #electroplating #weightreduction
Solarbird 
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
trying to get better with the electroplating mostly by electroplating leftover bike trailer parts that don’t matter anymore
DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-labhave you done any #DIY #electroplating?
what was your setup? how’d it work out for you?
I'm going to have to just blue this spring after all:
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/113217063706250135
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.
Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image ah good that worked - part of the problem with derusting big springs is keeping them stretched for the chemical bath and it looks good #BikeTrailer #BikeTooter #diy #maker