Redcanary

Thank you... what Adjustments would you reccomend... I am runninng 9-12 V

With Concentrated Copper Acetate

Let me clarify my dillemma... I can't get a solid layer of copper to plate onto clean steel... It is being moved, but is showing up on the steel as a gloop instead of a thin solid layer of copper.

I attempted doing some copper plating on a piece of steel fresh off the grinder and a nickel, all I got was a copper goop on the surface instead of a plate...

Can someone help me

TY

lol I started learning this stuff a week or two ago... I'm a fast learner but...

can you give me an idiot proof explanation of the crucible and bunson thing.

I am also limited to blade smithing equipment (forge torch etc) and house hold equipment.

thanks

** interesting revelation on the epsom experiment...

I filtered the liquid and am dehydrating the goop. I put the liquid back into the electrolysis jar and left it for another 8 hours, on top of more copper hydroxide I got a bulbous black mass on the anode ... copper oxide I presume? Other than thermite what might it be good for?

Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate... Is there a way to break the bonds between the 7H2O and the MgSO4 to create Magnesium Sulfate.

Also I have replicated the epsom salt copper experiment, what should I do with the copper hydroxide to use it while plating, or should I just turn it into copper oxide.

Also how complicated is Nickel plating?