Electroless Nickel Plating 3D Prints?? #3dprinting #chemistry #golf

I used electroless nickel plating to coat a 3d printed driver head in nickel!

[glorylyfe]

Electroplating like this doesn't add any structural integrity. It's too thin, plating is really about making the parts chemically resistant.

[FamousYasserX]

I work in production additive manufacturing as a design and simulation engineer for hypercars and defense projects. technical platings do add minor improvements to mechanical properties like yield, but it doesnt improve the elongation to break which is more important for impact load cases. If you use a ‘tough’ resin with a higher elongation to break it would have much better survivability to impact and wouldn’t be as brittle, the electroplating would stiffness to it, but wouldn’t help too much for impact.

[markleeramos]

Its like wrapping a banana in aluminum foil and expecting it to work as a hammer

[ClappOnUpp]

"..and it flipped me off?" 😂😂😂

[GlorifiedGremlin]

A better idea would be to 3d print a mold for a golf club and pour metal into it

[wilknkroff]

he try to turboflex his golf club but dad made a reality check

[OmnipotentNoodle]

I mean yeah no shit, its just plastic with a thin metal plating that provides no actual structural integrity

Edit: looking back on this, it sounds meaner than I intended lol. I gotta say, I respect this. Its a cool project, and trial and error is the foundation of science and engineering. Its really noteworthy that youre out here actually trying to create something and apply yourself. You'll get it man, just keep iterating 💜

[AnonJohn]

You know what else is covered in metal? Freddy Fazbear. And you dont wanna be covered in metal like Freddie Fivebear, Chicka the Kitchen, Bonnie the Bonnie, and Foxy the Pirate Fox rar. They were the five children killed by William After in the game Five Nights at Freddy's.

[RegularHunter]

Golfer here. Really cool designs and idea. Helped me appreciate the forged aspect of my irons a little more. Well done! Keep creating!

[cnyle]

Pretty intresting little project man, good shit

[parpar]

Coat it several times with a ceramic slurry. Heat it to remove the plastic. Then add molten metal.

[mikeepm]

You and your dad hitting the clubs you built is awesome

[FooxTru]

"Coating plastic in nickel to make it indestructible" is like covering plastic in gold leaf to make it 24 carat gold.
That's just not how it works

[nevasmile]

Honestly one of the coolest iron’s I’ve seen

[Bobcatrd]

Who would have thought coating and extremely brittle material in foil wouldn’t make it as strong as steel?

[Datunitooo]

This was entertaining to watch and I’m here for that exact purpose. Thank you for your work

[Swarly]

As a former Electroless nickel player with 12 years of experience, I can appreciate your attempt at home 😂
Had a few adhesion issues with the copper. Copper goes on before nickel if you want tonl try again 😂 cheers 🍻

[yo]

I always nickel plate my 9 triggers because they go thru some SERIOUS action and i can tell you it definitely helps structural integrity

[gajos]

if you want it to work, you should definitely try casting it in aluminum using a wax resin (or lost pla if you have and fdm printer), it would look phenomenal and would be a great conversation piece at any field.

[nerobaal]

You could use an FDM printer and a high temp and high strength plastic. You can then anneal that plastic in powdered salt. You could also 3D print in metal itself.