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

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Жыл бұрын

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You will learn how to cover 3D printed part with high quality copper layer.
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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 Жыл бұрын

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!

@mikejohnston5159 4 ай бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Snigzou Жыл бұрын

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!

@R67K Жыл бұрын

Underrated. thanks for the reminder!

@rayanemargad1409 Жыл бұрын

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

@ssjung200 Жыл бұрын

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

@josephfriedrich9792 Жыл бұрын

3:32 I'm lovin it

@JohnS-er7jh 5 ай бұрын

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).

@brettsalter3300 Жыл бұрын

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

@hackerbot9123 Жыл бұрын

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

@jonasweber5566 Жыл бұрын

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.

@CdrCARN Жыл бұрын

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

@DavidTiago2503 11 ай бұрын

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

@ChadsCustomCreations Жыл бұрын

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

@fyr3_mc597 Жыл бұрын

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!

@emiliomota2459 Жыл бұрын

Nice work man, you are a genius

@shadowace112 Жыл бұрын

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

@rayanemargad1409 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@authentic4225 Жыл бұрын

Make it look like a rolex watch!

@andrewmoryakov7556 Жыл бұрын

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

@seekertosecrets Жыл бұрын

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

@alf3071 Жыл бұрын

how thick can electroplating make the coating?

@fleckione-workinprogress4249 Жыл бұрын

Really great series!

@tobiasw2032 Жыл бұрын

awesome job

@eugeneyuan806 Жыл бұрын

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!

@exil1737 Жыл бұрын

You're the best !

@thebestofall1471 Жыл бұрын

Use a ball joint for your elbow joint

@quinto0026 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@gibaweba 10 сағат бұрын

Where is a video with the full suite

@Jkauppa 11 ай бұрын

plating 3d printed tin sn99 model with copper

@Jkauppa 11 ай бұрын

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

@Jkauppa 11 ай бұрын

use standard store copper water pipe

@Jkauppa 11 ай бұрын

you can use coffee filters

@Jkauppa 11 ай бұрын

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

@Jkauppa 11 ай бұрын

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

@svjatgusar Жыл бұрын

супер )! - огромное спасибо

@gachasomething6043 10 ай бұрын

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

@the_bowyerblack_locust1837 3 күн бұрын

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

@Zane.Wellnitz Жыл бұрын

How about titanium coated carbon fiber?

@nemesisobsidian 10 ай бұрын

Titanium can't be electroplated.

@Zane.Wellnitz 10 ай бұрын

@@nemesisobsidian not electroplated since it's obviously is not the answer. Layered... And it can actually kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9KYZK-Z1LimkY0.html

@TheRealRomansThirteen Ай бұрын

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.

@svjatgusar Жыл бұрын

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

@francescochristianmusso5067 2 ай бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

There is electricity in there the cleaner u make the mettal

@ROBINIS17 2 күн бұрын

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

@oleglogvynenko6832 5 ай бұрын

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.

@agentt7665 Жыл бұрын

Can we just spray paint it instead?

@waytospergtherebro Жыл бұрын

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

@ravereviews6853 Жыл бұрын

Its good for you because it has electrolytes!

@dm.b7560 Жыл бұрын

YOu mean you are actually "growing" copper?

@DAPLAYZ1 3 күн бұрын

Right he gonna be rich

@rolandmine6693 Жыл бұрын

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

@JanoschNr1 Жыл бұрын

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

@nemesisobsidian 10 ай бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

The real life Tony Stark.

@MuniMuni-zu1zf Жыл бұрын

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 😂