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

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

#electroplating

have 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.

#BikeTooter #BikeTrailer #diy #maker #electroplating