Easy Copper Plating Of Steel

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  • @sarahmcfadden8990
    @sarahmcfadden8990 7 років тому +11

    It's impossible not to smile while watching this! He looks so pleased :)

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  7 років тому +3

      it's the little things that make me happy lol

    • @charlitospops3472
      @charlitospops3472 3 роки тому

      @@ThinkingandTinkering Hey man this is really cool!
      Can you please put a link or write the title in the description for the video you made showing how to make the solution?
      I searched videos for copper nanoparticles but I’m not exactly sure which method you used to make this for plating steel, sorry if this is a stupid question but this is all new to me… Thanks for your time and help, I appreciate it!

  • @BorutPeterlinPhotography
    @BorutPeterlinPhotography 10 років тому +1

    Yes, I would like to try this. I's amazing how fast and easy the metal was coppered. Can't wait for your next video! Thx for doing this and obviously having the best time ever! Love it!

    • @calvinf9218
      @calvinf9218 4 роки тому

      Hey! What a surprise to see you here. Love the channel. I know it's 5 years old, but hey

  • @replicant357
    @replicant357 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for the content you provide .

  • @PatriotCoinRings
    @PatriotCoinRings 7 років тому +9

    +Robert Murray-Smith While we all appreciate this amazing find you've now left us as excited as you with one exception being you didn't share what the "greenish brownish powder stuff" is that you used? Could you please elaborate here in the post, I'm very interested, thanks.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  7 років тому +2

      it's copper nanoparticles and i have done vids on how to make those

    • @SRTMustangKiller
      @SRTMustangKiller 5 років тому +7

      Robert Murray-Smith except you have a ton of videos... could you at least leave a link to the video in video description box?

  • @tomgardner9069
    @tomgardner9069 6 років тому +7

    Robert Murray-Smith
    : Dear Sir, from what I've read throughout this 112 comments, you have been asked to make a command performance of how to create the "greenish-brown liquid" a.k.a. Metallo-Organic Ink many times over the past four years. If I could knight thee for doing a video, I truly would, sir. I know your time and effort may be a limited commodity, but your viewers have been waiting with bated breath to see your Merlin-esque pageantry in creating this solution. If you will make this video, there will be songs sung about you by chem students across the lands. They shall raise their voices in the Tom Lehrer hymn of the periodic table and offer a pint in gratitude.

  • @das250250
    @das250250 10 років тому +1

    Rob you come up with so many interesting things I'd need a team to keep up with the potential commercial applications ..Fantastic stuff tY

  • @jakep5132
    @jakep5132 3 роки тому

    You can use this as a precursor to plating silver on steel to make it bind better

  • @pasqualesofia5886
    @pasqualesofia5886 8 років тому +2

    Mr. Robert, are you willing to show us how to make the "greenish-brown liquid"? That would be really great. :-) Thank you very much for making all of these informative and easy to follow videos. I love your excitement and your enthusiasm is contagious. Your videos are fun to watch. Thanks Again ~pasquale

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому +1

      +Pasquale Sofia i'll try and get round to it mate

    • @pasqualesofia5886
      @pasqualesofia5886 8 років тому +1

      +Robert Murray-Smith I went back through some of your older videos and I believe I have all the information I need for making my own "greenish-brown liquid". Thanks again for all of your efforts. I can only imagine how much of your time goes into producing these great videos. Have an awesome day! :-)

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому +1

      +Pasquale Sofia brilliant thanks for doing that - it might have taken me ages to get round to it

  • @djyul
    @djyul 5 років тому +1

    Hi Robert,i haved searched through your vids for how you eventually made the powder you are working with.Which one relates to the powder you are using?
    I have searched,and found an early one from 2012 and then one from 2014 with the blender.Please help, i will make you an amazing sculpture for your desk/wall,you will wonder how i did it! copper plated with this solution.

  • @MB-st7be
    @MB-st7be 3 місяці тому

    So what was in the brown solution?

  • @michaeltucker8645
    @michaeltucker8645 4 роки тому

    This just made my day I'm assuming I just made the nano particles in the other video I just watched . Using a qtip plate the top and btm of 18650 batteries so it easier to solder to them. That seem way cheaper than buying aluminum flux and much stronger

    • @karlmyers6518
      @karlmyers6518 3 роки тому

      Interested to know how it worked out for you as I have another use similar cheers

    • @michaeltucker8645
      @michaeltucker8645 3 роки тому

      It worked out pretty good but I been trying to go another route conductive 2 part epoxy putty I just got some graphine ordered yesterday thinking try a cheap version just mix in the graphine to cheap 3.99 a stick generic epoxy stick see if I cant get a solder less no weld solution that could also work as the bus bar as well

    • @michaeltucker8645
      @michaeltucker8645 3 роки тому

      I have some copper tape aluminum tape zinc and few different guage nichrome wires might even try adding to that as a reinforce see what it does for hell of it

    • @michaeltucker8645
      @michaeltucker8645 3 роки тому

      But before that I used a acidic flux paste I would apply to the cells on 1 side and let sit a few minutes and used a acidic flux core solder and 100watt iron solders easily

    • @karlmyers6518
      @karlmyers6518 3 роки тому

      @@michaeltucker8645 nice thanks for letting me know mate

  • @knowidea7485
    @knowidea7485 7 років тому

    Nice aesthetic for certain applications

  • @tarunbasu9953
    @tarunbasu9953 4 роки тому

    Is it possible for bulk production.

  • @danielgreenaway1587
    @danielgreenaway1587 4 роки тому

    How did you clean the steel please? HydroChloric? Isoprop? Acetone? Anvil Grinder?

  • @kf4dcy501
    @kf4dcy501 10 років тому +1

    hello sir. i wish to know the link to the making of the brownish green powder. i need to make some to line the inside of a gas/petrol tank. one that has shown signs of rusting. in the process of ridding the rust. the process will leave the metal susceptible to further and accelerated rusting. this process seems to me to be the best way to end rusting of the treated metal. thanks, hope to hear back soon.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  10 років тому

      i'll try and do the vid mate - it will be a while as i am off to Oz for two months

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  10 років тому

      kf4dcy
      pretty much spot on there mate just mix in water and fumed silica. There's a problem with your link

    • @kf4dcy501
      @kf4dcy501 10 років тому

      thanks, 73's kf4dcy
      here give these a go, www.romanticasheville.com/land_of_oz.htm
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz_%28theme_park%29facebook.com/Autumnatoz

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  10 років тому

      kf4dcy
      cheers mate

  • @ryanabrams303
    @ryanabrams303 6 років тому +1

    Did you ever get around to posting the video for the “Metallo Organic Ink”?

  • @abdulmatinabdulkhalique985
    @abdulmatinabdulkhalique985 6 років тому +4

    Sir, can you please explain from where you got this liquid please sir

  • @TheLukekee
    @TheLukekee 8 років тому +2

    Hi Robert,
    I bought the materials and have been tricking about and experimenting rubbing on steel car panels, (following your video to make the copper nano particle liquid), but unfortunately without the final result you seemed to get here. It is in a paste form, but it does not want to adhere to the steel like above. Have you added a binder or anything of any sort here, or is it just the copper particle powder with water?
    Cheers,
    Luke K

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому +2

      +Luke Keeshan there's a bit of oxalic acid in there too mate

    • @TheLukekee
      @TheLukekee 8 років тому +1

      Ah i see, use the oxalic acid to etch clean the surface before hand, rather than mix it through the copper mix itself?
      Thanks again

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому

      +Luke Keeshan either way is good mate

    • @TheLukekee
      @TheLukekee 8 років тому

      I purchased some oxalic acid powder and have experimented in several ways, but still no dice. Do you have an email, and i can explain further so perhaps i can trouble-shoot where i am going wrong?
      Cheers,
      Luke K

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому

      +Luke Keeshan no worries mate - my email is robertmurraysmith64@gmail.com but please remember i have limited time

  • @Papa33J
    @Papa33J 4 роки тому

    Good afternoon. I am trying to copper plate my steel motorcycle tank and fenders. I've been searching for a while and finally found this amazing video. I've read through all the comments about making the powder, but I have a couple of questions. In your comments you state that you are using the precursor to the ink. Is the power simply copper nano-particles derived from the mixing of Copper Sulfate in water, ascorbic acid in water, and then mixing the two, letting the copper settle and pouring off the liquid and letting it dry? Is that the powder you are adding water to in this video? I made the nano-particles in solution and then rubbed that solution on. It was a bit more stable that pouring straight copper sulfate on the steel, but it was quite thin and didn't produce a strong copper color and came right off with some cleaner. Please advise where I'm wrong. I've watched every video you've made about copper and it feels like I'm just missing one key point. I joined your site just for this information. I am very eager to copper the steel as I already have brass accents all over the bike. (Also in the description for this video you mention that the steel is being cleaned so thoroughly that it allows for a stronger replacement. Are you adding anything to the powder that would clean the steel so well?)

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  4 роки тому

      i see you are a mamber mate - i will do a full video for you and it will be up in a couple of days - cheers

    • @Papa33J
      @Papa33J 4 роки тому

      ​@@ThinkingandTinkering Wow, thank you so much! I have been working this project for over a year and I feel like I'm almost there. I loved the copper coating you got rubbing the solution on steel and that I can polish it without it coming off. I plan to use Exo-Armour to coat it once the plating is complete.

    • @Papa33J
      @Papa33J 4 роки тому

      @@ThinkingandTinkering I hate for you to have to go through making an entire video. Maybe if I explain what I think I've learned, you can correct me. From what I gathered, I can make a 0.1m solution of L-Ascorbic acid and approximately a 0.035 m solution of copper sulfide in near boiling water. I then pour the two solutions together and let the copper fall to the bottom, pour off the liquid and dry the copper. When dry, I can rub it on bare steel and it will adhere? I ran a test the other day using old Vitaminc C vitamins crushed up and put in water and I got copper, but the VC was old and didn't go clear so I tossed it.

    • @Landsknecht89
      @Landsknecht89 4 роки тому

      @@Papa33J I'm also eagerly waiting for an explanatory video on the subject. It just doesn't work for me. I am not a chemist. I just want to coat a few steel parts. I'm starting to despair. :(

    • @robertocoronado8074
      @robertocoronado8074 4 роки тому

      @@Papa33J ​ Thanks Robert for your info, I know you are busy...PAPA33J, Aiming to do the same thing on a motorbike, were you ever able to figure out how to get this to a viable powder form and stick to be as durable as imagined? Kind Wishes and ride safe!

  • @mmigliari
    @mmigliari 8 років тому +3

    Please make the video on how to make the paint!

  • @bikefarmtaiwan1800
    @bikefarmtaiwan1800 9 років тому

    That is fantastic! I can tell from how excited you are that it is a brilliant discovery! Thanks for sharing- I have lots of great uses for that ! Do you suppose that going on and copper plating that copper finish would allow a thick durable build up?

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      Bikefarm Taiwan don't know mate - i haven't done that much with it as there hasn't been that much interest

  • @random5147
    @random5147 9 років тому

    Hi can I ask How durable do you think the plating would be in terms of plating a s/steel cooking pan. Would it ware down? Also can it be layered to make the copper layer thicker. And is it actual copper and not just a colour. Thanks and great vid by the way

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      ran dom it is copper - but very thin - it would wear down with the kind of wear and tear a cooking pot gets

    • @random5147
      @random5147 9 років тому

      Ok thanks can it not be layered to make it thicker

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      ran dom worth a try mate - i'll give it a go when i get a chance

    • @random5147
      @random5147 9 років тому

      Thanks please do. IT would have to be equally durable as copper or I might aswell just use copper eh . Also can it be polished up to a mirror finish just like copper without effecting the finish? Thanks.

  • @kobiroar4221
    @kobiroar4221 4 роки тому

    Hi Robert please tell what the powder is and where can I get it in the uk? Cheers

  • @aracknidd
    @aracknidd 9 років тому

    Wow, seems like great stuff and I really enjoy your enthusiastic energy when you do stuff.. You remind me of 'Q' from James Bond., LOL

  • @adam207321
    @adam207321 3 роки тому

    The smile man gotta love it :D
    I would actually like to use this method to copper plate steel chassis (old radio chassis from the 50s). The steel chassis would be sandblasted then immediately put in the solution I think that would work rather nicely and then I could use something like liquid tin to get tin on the surface of the chassis. Just wondering If I can get that thing anywhere on the internet (the dust in the bowl)

  • @benhaynie310
    @benhaynie310 7 років тому

    Really cool stuff here, thanks for all your work. I'm trying this out with some stainless steel and I'm not getting any plating. I made the nanoparticles you described in another video, precipitating copper sulfate with ascorbic acid, drying, then suspending in water. The solution just drips off the steel, no plating. I know stainless is harder to deal with, is there any trick you've been able to find for it?
    Thanks!!

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  7 років тому

      if you are using the nanoparticles what you need to do is closer to peen plating mate

    • @benhaynie310
      @benhaynie310 7 років тому

      Alright, I'll give that a shot. I can't use the tumbler like your video, these are stainless steel flasks (gifts for friends) that' I'm trying to plate with a design. I'll play around with it, see if I can get a good peening system for a curved surface. Cheers!

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  7 років тому

      awesome mate - good luck

    • @Papa33J
      @Papa33J 4 роки тому

      Ben, I have been scouring these videos to make the powder so I can copper plate my steel motorcycle parts, such as the tank and fenders and a few bolts. I already have a marine quality clear coat to stop any oxidation once it's applied and to protect the coat from abrasion, but I just couldn't find the video that was clear enough on how to make the powder. Essentially, I am just making the particles in the suspension, pouring off the liquid, and then letting the nano-particles dry and then use that powder in water? Have you tried this on steel?

  • @ElleBeast
    @ElleBeast 9 років тому +13

    Was the video explaining how to make this stuff ever made? Could someone link it if it exists?

    • @nejiniisan1265
      @nejiniisan1265 5 років тому +4

      It is a displacement reaction.
      You dissolve copper chloride in a acidic solution and rub it on a clean steel surface.
      The copper chloride can be made by dissolving copper wire in a ferric chloride solution (PCB etching acid).
      Then you add a little bit of Muriatic acid and a bit of drug store hydrogen peroxide.
      You can try this mix, the proportions are not that critical:
      1) 1 L of PCB etching solution.
      2) Dissolve about 100g of copper wire, if it doesn't dissolve completely after siting overnight, no problem. Just sieve out the unreacted copper.
      3) Add 100ml of muriatic acid and 25 ml of hydrogen peroxide (3% will do).
      Wash the steel piece with detergent soap, to degrease it.
      You can wash the steel with sodium bicarbonate or bathe it in soda (the important thing is to remove the grease).
      Wash it again with plain to remove the soap/sodium bicarbonate/soda
      Then just rub the piece with a cloth dampened with the acid solution. The excess muriatic acid within the acid solution clean the oxides and help the copper plating.

    • @0x73V14
      @0x73V14 5 років тому +1

      I'm not sticking my hands in anything containing muriatic acid

  • @squartbotai1383
    @squartbotai1383 3 роки тому

    So whats the recipe?

  • @DerekTJ
    @DerekTJ 3 роки тому

    So how can a Joe Schmo like me do this to a stainless-steel kitchen hood by picking a few bits up in B&Q?

  • @thomaschristopherwhite9043
    @thomaschristopherwhite9043 8 років тому

    That is cool. Would this work on stainless steel?

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому

      +Thomas Christopher White yep - i did a video where we coat stainless and solder a wire to it

  • @thermachrome8304
    @thermachrome8304 4 роки тому

    Hello :)
    Do you have the link to the powder you made is it Nanno copper

  • @mokha1611
    @mokha1611 10 років тому

    Good job, seems to be very useful. Thanks

  • @camdraper4644
    @camdraper4644 6 років тому

    How is the solution made?

  • @replicant357
    @replicant357 2 роки тому

    Wow.!! Just wow!

  • @gr1f1th
    @gr1f1th 10 років тому +1

    Robert does this adhere to aluminium and other metals that don't electroplate well because that would be ideal for reducing the cost of the copper for the thermocell. :)

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  10 років тому

      not in this form - no - but i am working on it

    • @gr1f1th
      @gr1f1th 10 років тому

      Robert Murray-Smith Oh well, still very cool. Got a bit of chromium oxide in the mail and and trying to recreate some of your findings. With the Cr2O3 and TiO2 on Aluminium, every time I add heat to it drops it's power output. Going to try this between Cu and Al next, one doped a bit with graphene ink and the other without.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  10 років тому

      ben dorman
      cool mate keep me in the loop

  • @ZachsHomeBiz
    @ZachsHomeBiz 8 років тому

    Would you say copper plating has the same anti bac/microb effects??

  • @ElleBeast
    @ElleBeast 9 років тому

    I couldn't find this substance on your website. What is it called?

  • @irrops
    @irrops 7 років тому

    I wonder how long that would last on a steel boat hull?

  • @mikeholdom310
    @mikeholdom310 9 років тому

    I would like to purchase some of this or make my own if possible. Please help or advise me where to buy

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      Mike Holdom replied on another video - i answer all posts - please don't double post

  • @alexfournier6512
    @alexfournier6512 6 років тому

    Where can I get this magic copper powder??

  • @ElleBeast
    @ElleBeast 9 років тому

    Was the video on how to make the stuff ever uploaded? I am desperately trying to plate my bicycle with copper.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      not in itself - you make copper nanoparticles and add water - there are a couple of vids on that

  • @ClownWhisper
    @ClownWhisper 10 років тому

    so in theory, one could get a steel foil stick it to a plastic sheet you might be able to make a copper cladding for a simple circuit board and etch both..... i wonder....

  • @stevesimpson5994
    @stevesimpson5994 10 років тому +1

    Too anyone who can >> make it happen

  • @welbys
    @welbys 9 років тому

    Hi Robert , I find your videos very informative and have now ordered chemicals to make the copper nano particles , however I'm after picking your brains on how it gets from being in solution to the power state to which then water is added to copper straight onto steel ?
    I've watched most of your videos looking for it but with I luck Robert , if you could divulge such information it would be greatly appreciated ,
    Regards mark slater

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому +2

      Mark Slater There are a number of ways of doing that mate - it's not so much a secret as long and convoluted - the channel is not my job - it is more of a hobby and sometimes I just don't have the time to go into things in that detail - just right now for example I am answering this post in a hotel in Canada where I am about to leave for work but i have a spare half hour so I though i would answer my youtube posts - there are 137 posts - what i can say is limited and there has to be an element of self discovery on your part - having said all of that - i tend to think of a problem in terms of where i want to get to and adjust my initial starting conditions to take that into account - it means i have less process steps to get to where i want to get and that makes things easier - hope that helps

    • @BenjaminTedmondson
      @BenjaminTedmondson 5 років тому +2

      above: "I'm not going to tell you..."

  • @ellalees7210
    @ellalees7210 7 років тому

    Hi I'd like to try this how do I make the solution to do it

  • @darenblomerth1047
    @darenblomerth1047 8 років тому

    wondering if that's be good for a cooking surface. Has anyone tested it that far?

  • @THEDRAGONBOOSTER8
    @THEDRAGONBOOSTER8 9 років тому

    Need to know where to get or make this ink please,Very interesting.Thank you..

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      THEDRAGONBOOSTER8 I made it from copper nanoparticles - i did a video on how to make the particles

    • @THEDRAGONBOOSTER8
      @THEDRAGONBOOSTER8 9 років тому

      Robert Murray-Smith Thank you a friend of mine is making some plasma cutouts and I would like to try this method to plate a few ..

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      THEDRAGONBOOSTER8 sounds v cool mate - i look forward to the vid

  • @ps2hacker
    @ps2hacker 8 років тому

    So how do you make it, I mean, what is that "greenish brown" powder?

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому

      shown in video on copper nanoparticles

    • @mgfons
      @mgfons 8 років тому

      Where would one buy some copper nano-particles? I can't find them on amazon.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому

      you have to make them - i did 2 or 3 vids on that

    • @ps2hacker
      @ps2hacker 8 років тому

      I've seen them, now, thanks. Time to make some nanoparticles.......

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  8 років тому

      go fo rit mate

  • @wolfgagger
    @wolfgagger 8 років тому

    how is this made?

  • @777fiddlekrazy
    @777fiddlekrazy 5 років тому

    now you can chromiium plate it?

  • @nejiniisan1265
    @nejiniisan1265 5 років тому

    I noticed that when I cleaned steel with muriatic acid contaminated with copper chloride.

  • @bbunderson
    @bbunderson 5 років тому

    Can I email you? I have a lot if questions:)

  • @brianbadovin1919
    @brianbadovin1919 9 років тому +1

    Sir, I am dying to try this but cannot find anything on the metallo-organic ink can you tell me the ingredients or make another video. Brian

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому +1

      i will make a vid mate

    • @brianbadovin1919
      @brianbadovin1919 9 років тому

      Robert Murray-Smith Still waiting.

    • @ThinkingandTinkering
      @ThinkingandTinkering  9 років тому

      Brian Badovin may have to wait for a while - i have quite a lot to do and this is not a priority - but i will get round to it

    • @brianbadovin1919
      @brianbadovin1919 9 років тому

      Ok i'll wait. No worries.

    • @yurin8or
      @yurin8or 9 років тому +1

      Robert Murray-Smith Also anxiously awaiting this vid. Impressive stuff!

  • @danielsorianocortes1697
    @danielsorianocortes1697 10 років тому

    Hello Robert, that was very impressive! I've been looking for a while for a method to cooper plate steel surfaces, do you mind if I send you an email with details?

  • @MaleAdaptor
    @MaleAdaptor 10 років тому

    Hello Robert, I emailed you an application using my real name.