#12 How to cover your 3D print with metal. Copper electroplating. Basics of composites.

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You will learn how to cover 3D printed part with high quality copper layer.
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TIMECODES
0:35 How to fix parts in a bath
1:27 Conditioning of anode plates
2:50 Preparing electrolyte
4:48 Copper electroplating
6:42 Copper layer processing
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[@LombaxPieboy16]

Tons of effort went into this series. I think it deserved a spot on the main channel for visibility, but I understand why you uploaded them here. Incredible work, thank you for sharing so much research with the rest of the world!

[@Snigzou]

3:35 Salt isn't used as a brightener, but mainly as a depolarization agent for anodes. Cl- ensures proper anodic dissolution,and anodes should be containing a tad of phosphore in them to work properly. You're trying to not form Cu2O and form CuO, to have a close to 100% anodic dissolution yield!

[@mikejohnston5159]

This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for!! Thank you for going over this process in such detail. I’m a big fan of the channel by the way!

[@jimsleestak8012]

Excellent, thank you! Did you ever read the autobiographies of Richard Feynman? He was a Nobel laureate physicist who did many things, but his first job was figuring out how to electroplate plastic pens.

[@R67K]

Underrated. thanks for the reminder!

[@rayanemargad1409]

you should consider using glassware for the plating to avoid plastic particles detaching due to heat and lowering the electrolyte solution's purity

[@ltcameron1]

Great video.

[@brettsalter3300]

Amazing work, wonderful explanation of process. Thank you for all the hard work.

[@hackerbot9123]

Thank you very much for sharing your 2 years of hardwork my support with you ❤

[@ChadsCustomCreations]

Amazing work, this series is a gift to the world for you to share with us all.

[@josephfriedrich9792]

3:32 I'm lovin it

[@JohnS-er7jh]

Not sure if you are still making videos, but if you are your channel is about to blow up (now that it is on Daily Dose of Internet today, showing the Iron Man Suit).

[@jonasweber5566]

This is so impressive, how much effort you have put into the details and the manufacturing of those Parts. You should deserve an Oscar for such nice work.

[@ssjung200]

You must be use copper plating additives it will make a beautiful surface.

[@fyr3_mc597]

Alex you're the best! You are definitely an inspiration to me for your intelligence, humility, discipline and sense of humor. I think it would be great if you make a tutorial on iron man helmet in blender, I'm trying to learn blender on my own to make helmets like iron man, but I hardly find any good tutorials 😅. Thanks for everything Alex, if you continue like this, in a few months you'll be flying like iron man!

[@rayanemargad1409]

you could also use a preliminary aluminum plating before the copper one since it has better conductivity, it might make the piece heavier but it could possibly produce a better copper plating

[@nemesisobsidian]

Aluminum can be electroplated? Can you tell me if any alloys of aluminum can be electroplated? Example: 7075 Aluminum alloy.

[@emiliomota2459]

Nice work man, you are a genius

[@calebhouston5799]

Super excited to follow this further!

[@CdrCARN]

Awesome and inspiring. I can only imagine my custom helmet coated this way. Very cool.

[@authentic4225]

Make it look like a rolex watch!

[@andrewmoryakov7556]

Водород с помощью лазера. Было бы круто если бы ты это проверил. Согласно проведенным расчётам, затраты электроэнергии на получение 1 кг водорода могут быть снижены до 15-17 кВт·ч, тогда как в классическом электролизёре они могут достигать 40 кВт·ч и более. При этом появляется возможность создавать компактные и относительно недорогие модульные генераторы водорода, для работы которых хватит сравнительно маломощных полупроводниковых лазеров. Побочным продуктом процесса станут оксиды алюминия, которые можно использовать для производства адсорбентов, керамических материалов и других материалов

[@DavidTiago2503]

Please tell me it won't stop until armor works 🤩

[@seekertosecrets]

Kinda makes you wonder if you can add color to the nickel plating process.

[@thebestofall1471]

Use a ball joint for your elbow joint

[@exil1737]

You're the best !

[@shadowace112]

I went looking for this sault at 3:06 . Did you mean salt?

[@eugeneyuan806]

Hello Alex! Could you explain what the purpose of the additives to your copper plating bath are and why they are added in different amounts? Thanks!

[@tobiasw2032]

awesome job

[@alf3071]

how thick can electroplating make the coating?

[@quinto0026]

what would be the result if you were to give the bath to many amps? also, would it be possible to reuse the elektroplating solution?

[@LombaxPieboy16]

If I remember correctly from his older video, as long as you strain out any sediment you can reuse it for years.

[@fleckione-workinprogress4249]

Really great series!

[@Jkauppa]

plating 3d printed tin sn99 model with copper

[@Jkauppa]

tin is reusable, either detach and re-electroform or melt and re-3d-print

[@Jkauppa]

use standard store copper water pipe

[@Jkauppa]

you can use coffee filters

[@Jkauppa]

if you electrolyse CuSO4 with graphite/copper electrodes, you can make your own H2SO4 in the solution from that

[@Jkauppa]

try graphite sand blasting the 3d prints, to embed the graphite into the parts

[@gibaweba]

Where is a video with the full suite

[@TheRealRomansThirteen]

I'm definitely taking the fool card on this comment. So you're saying you electro plated copper with graphing powder and graphene varnish, and then you can let your play The Copper with nickel or chromium to make some kind of super composite alloy backed with Kevlar or carbon fiber to make it Bulletproof? I was just excited to see metal on pla. =) it could be ABS or something else but I was still excited about it. Because you're doing ballistics test and I haven't seen any yet I have to look across your channel they do make like a ceramic pla and also metal. I don't know if this could help out with anything like that but ceramic is used in very good bulletproof vests like the dragon skin material.

[@gachasomething6043]

when and if you do finish your suit what's next

[@Zane.Wellnitz]

How about titanium coated carbon fiber?

[@nemesisobsidian]

Titanium can't be electroplated.

[@Zane.Wellnitz]

@@nemesisobsidian not electroplated since it's obviously is not the answer. Layered... And it can actually kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y53LYn-epLd1l7s

[@svjatgusar]

одно не понял - как именно подключить" - " к не металлической детали, чтоб она стала тока проводящей ?

[@francescochristianmusso5067]

It's those 5mm of stripped bare enamel copper that bring the electrons to the graphite coated layer we put onto the opposite side!

[@physicsbystanprisajny6284]

There is electricity in there the cleaner u make the mettal

[@the_bowyerblack_locust1837]

Whats happen to you, no more Videos?😢 is the process finished?

[@svjatgusar]

супер )! - огромное спасибо

[@oleglogvynenko6832]

Sorry, but you confuse viewers. Under "battery acid" you mean diluted sulfuric acid, battery electrolite, not concentrated sulfuric acid and it is not clear from the description.

[@ROBINIS17]

I would buy the complete suit. Contact me in future!

[@agentt7665]

Can we just spray paint it instead?

[@ravereviews6853]

Its good for you because it has electrolytes!

[@waytospergtherebro]

What people don't realize is that this plastic armor is actually being used by the Russian military right now.

[@Zangs_YT]

Esse caba ainda ta vivo?

[@rolandmine6693]

I’m making mine full metal. I found electroplating just not realistic enough for my taste

[@dm.b7560]

YOu mean you are actually "growing" copper?

[@GRIMREAPERSOULS_16]

Right he gonna be rich

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[@JanoschNr1]

Okay the effort is nice dandy and all but why not simply cast it for real? Would seem simpler at this time

[@nemesisobsidian]

Casting is very dangerous. One wrong move and that molten metal will burn you down to the bone. Electroplating may seem unimpressive, but it's far safer. Also there's always a possible chance that the propane tank or other fuel source can catastrophically explode due to a valve malfunction or manufacturing defect of the tank which could cause serious bodily injury and a potential fire hazard.

[@shidoriyah]

The real life Tony Stark.

[@MuniMuni-zu1zf]

Alex it's time to grow up man! Make your own designs of functional equipment (e.g. exo suits) that people (e.g. with disabilities or industrial purposes) can use. Such a joke when Guy with some engineering skills makes toys taking ideas from a hyped movie. It makes you cheap. Use your creativity to build useful things. Time to level up boy 😂