Making Nickel Plated DIY Decorations!

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[TheFifthLight]

Dude, you have THE BEST element/ experiment channel on YouTube

[Kiromony]

Imagine jumping in a bunch of leaves in autumm.... Made of nickel

[BothHands]

This was one of my favorite of your videos ever, i loved the trial and error, perfecting your process along the way, and the results are stunningly beautiful. I loved the explanations of why certain additives were used, and how they improved your electrolyte solution. This was such an amazing video, thank you! I never could have imagined it would be possible to metal plate and organic non-conducting material. Fascinating

[KowboyUSA]

The mystery to myself of how organic materials, such as leather baby shoes, are metal plated has finally been solved.

[kevinbyrne]

He who persists, wins.
I never realized that making bronzed baby shoes involved so many steps and so many trade secrets.

[blackoak]

For best "paint" coverage with least shape distortion, do several light passes with the can keeping it about 6-10" from the object being sprayed.
If you are doing several items at the same time then the layer on the first item should be dry by the time you finish the last one. Takes a bit of patience, but if you care about preserving the shape and lines then it pays off

[updownstate]

My father was a chemist. We loved to go with him to his lab. Greetings from Arizona USA!

[jrshaul]

Americans: We won't tell you what's in our plating bath, but you can buy the magic liquid for $100 a liter.

Russia: Нет проблем, товарищ!

[ActiveAtom]

We actually do nickel plating in 3 or 4 tones, well copper and tin too so it is great to see the smart one here also does things we can do from scratch. We are very happy now and hey we love this channel always it is a great place to allow for thinking outside your normal daily ways. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.

[ProjectPhysX]

Love the new experiment series! Thank you for also showing all the failed attempts! Very interesting!

[nathansmith]

0:49 wow, what is that strange chemical compound brightening additive?
oh, it's black strap molasses!

[ethanrowlette]

Thanks for keeping up with this experiment, there isn't enough quality content available on this topic. I would love it if you would create a comprehensive tutorial on your method that covers everything you could possibly need to know.

[TheDutchSoupPissingCompany]

Well....that was a job well done...the chemistry, the reasoning, the explanations, the learning from disappointing results, the endresult and the editing...all of it.

[KekTekDe]

Tinplating of Copper is also fun and also pretty easy. You just need to dissolve some tin in hydrochloric acid to form tin(II) chloride, then just add some thiourea to the solition and you are basically finished. now just dip any copper into that solution and it gets coated with tin (because of redox flipping).


great videos! love your channel!

[nelmindo]

Greatings from Portugal. Thanks for using one portuguese euro cent

[ReadyUpGo]

Very helpful as I am just learning how to electroplate. This video covers as much as twenty others I have watched and then some. Good teaching is a rare and valuable skill and you have it my friend.

[horizonfurnitures]

While looking for bright nickel plating found this video, explaining very simply to understand...Thank you for sharing ....

[profdc]

Lookup at the damascene copper plating process. It uses polyethylene glycol (PEG), sodium chloride (NaCl), Janus Green B dye, 3-mercaptopropanesulfonic acid (MPSA). Also consider using acetic acid instead of sulfuric acid. It produces beautiful smooth copper plating!

[gentiligiuliano]

That's the best and most informative video I've seen so far on copper/nikel electroplating.

[sciloj]

I don't think this has been addressed so I want to mention it. The fact that the copper layer gradually propagates over the surface instead of covering it at once, means that the conductivity of the graphite layer is fairly low. This has to be taken into consideration either by adjusting the initial current or by using a better conductive primer.