Electroless Nickel Plating 3D Printed Tree Frog

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8 ай бұрын

I am depositing a layer of Nickel on a 3D Printed Tree Frog I ordered from JLCPCB with Caswell Electroless Nickel Solution

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@Sapien_by_chance Ай бұрын

Mr Sevilla, that was a very helpful demonstration. Will this electroless nickel plating kit work on polyimide films as well?

@MarvinSevilla-gl2gm Ай бұрын

I have not tested on such surface yet

@blake3dcake 5 ай бұрын

Amazing results!! Did the coating ever peel or degrade over time? Love the channel btw.

@AngelSevilla-fk6im 2 ай бұрын

It was not thick enough to peel. But its nickel so its pretty durable

@heathenxyt 8 ай бұрын

Mr. Sevilla, great video! Thank you, however, I'm a little confused about the solutions. You have 2 jugs of the Activator (yellow) and 1 jug of the One-Plate 1 EN solution (green) in the background but in the foreground you seem to have 1 cup of the activator, 1 cup of the "reducer", and 1 cup of the EN solution. What is the "reducer" solution? Is it just the same EN solution?

@nicamarvin 8 ай бұрын

Its just Nickel Sulfate as a washing step. You can omit that and just us Distiled water.

@heathenxyt 8 ай бұрын

Roger that. Thanks.

@PlatingPulse23 5 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@ksrinurepalle8240 3 күн бұрын

Manku liquid kavali

@olandesevolante6464 8 ай бұрын

fantastic result! do you supply Caswell products in europe? how can i contact you?

@nicamarvin 8 ай бұрын

www.caswelleurope.co.uk/electroless-plating-kits-and-consumables/

@jacquescoury2979 8 ай бұрын

Is the final nickel solution heated? Or can you do at room temperature?

@nicamarvin 8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately I have not been able to find room temperature Electroless Nickel solutions that are available to hobbyists. So in all of my videos the Solution is already preheated to close to boiling but it's losing temperature as time goes by, it's good for demonstration purposes, which most of my videos are for.

@jacquescoury2979 8 ай бұрын

@@nicamarvin so, what my plan was, was to get the room temperature electroless copper kit from caswell to plate all my parts in. Then, the ones that need to be nickel, I was going to purchase the plug n plate wand kit in the nickel/black chrome and then plate using that, since there’s an existing layer of copper already on the part

@nicamarvin 8 ай бұрын

@@jacquescoury2979 The Copper layer is too thin. You need to build it thicker.

@jacquescoury2979 8 ай бұрын

@@nicamarvin could use the Acid copper kit that caswell advertises to use after the electroless copper should you want a thicker layer in that case

@nicamarvin 8 ай бұрын

@@jacquescoury2979 Correct.

@charlessarfo4303 2 ай бұрын

is the nickel room temperature

@nicamarvin 2 ай бұрын

No, for 3D prints I lower the temperature to 155(150 being the lowest and 160 the maximum)

@chrisbourlakis1194 Ай бұрын

Is that degress or celcius? And what temperature do you head for plastics?

@dominickbadger6915 2 ай бұрын

Is it conductive?

@AngelSevilla-fk6im 2 ай бұрын

Yes, its conductive

@JJ-vp3bd Ай бұрын

does this work with bronze?

@MarvinSevilla-gl2gm Ай бұрын

Yes

@JJ-vp3bd Ай бұрын

@@MarvinSevilla-gl2gm how much does this cost in general if i had a 5 inch tall figure

@electronicsandewastescrapp7384 3 ай бұрын

I wish they sold the activator in smaller amounts.

@nicamarvin 3 ай бұрын

Angel Gilding sells smaller concentrate. angelgilding.com/palladium-sensitizer-concentrate.html I have used their chemicals for more than a decade. But keep in mind that once you mix the palladium concentrate to use it, the shelf life of the mixture is short, You have about 24-48 hours to use it. While the one sold by Caswell Plating is already mixed and has aditives that keep it from going bad.