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

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  • @LombaxPieboy16
    @LombaxPieboy16 Рік тому +35

    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
    @mikejohnston5159 10 місяців тому +4

    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!

  • @R67K
    @R67K Рік тому +2

    Underrated. thanks for the reminder!

  • @Snigzou
    @Snigzou Рік тому +2

    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!

  • @ChadsCustomCreations
    @ChadsCustomCreations Рік тому +4

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

  • @hackerbot9123
    @hackerbot9123 Рік тому +3

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

  • @brettsalter3300
    @brettsalter3300 Рік тому +3

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

  • @jimsleestak8012
    @jimsleestak8012 Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @jonasweber5566
    @jonasweber5566 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @emiliomota2459
    @emiliomota2459 Рік тому +2

    Nice work man, you are a genius

  • @calebhouston5799
    @calebhouston5799 4 місяці тому

    Super excited to follow this further!

  • @fyr3_mc597
    @fyr3_mc597 Рік тому +3

    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!

  • @rayanemargad1409
    @rayanemargad1409 Рік тому +3

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

  • @JohnS-er7jh
    @JohnS-er7jh 11 місяців тому +1

    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).

  • @josephfriedrich9792
    @josephfriedrich9792 Рік тому +1

    3:32 I'm lovin it

  • @CdrCARN
    @CdrCARN Рік тому +1

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

  • @rayanemargad1409
    @rayanemargad1409 Рік тому +2

    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
      @nemesisobsidian Рік тому +1

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

  • @ssjung200
    @ssjung200 Рік тому +1

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

  • @shadowace112
    @shadowace112 Рік тому +2

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

  • @exil1737
    @exil1737 Рік тому +1

    You're the best !

  • @ltcameron1
    @ltcameron1 3 місяці тому

    Great video.

  • @tobiasw2032
    @tobiasw2032 Рік тому +1

    awesome job

  • @fleckione-workinprogress4249

    Really great series!

  • @DavidTiago2503
    @DavidTiago2503 Рік тому +2

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

  • @eugeneyuan806
    @eugeneyuan806 Рік тому +1

    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!

  • @authentic4225
    @authentic4225 Рік тому +1

    Make it look like a rolex watch!

  • @alf3071
    @alf3071 Рік тому +3

    how thick can electroplating make the coating?

  • @griptopia
    @griptopia 19 днів тому

    hey alex love your work, i make props and things for a living and you really are working at a pro level!! We are based close to pinewood studios west of london, if you are ever over this way would be lovely to meet you. :)

  • @quinto0026
    @quinto0026 Рік тому +4

    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
      @LombaxPieboy16 Рік тому +1

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

  • @Jkauppa
    @Jkauppa Рік тому +2

    plating 3d printed tin sn99 model with copper

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa Рік тому +1

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

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa Рік тому +1

      use standard store copper water pipe

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa Рік тому +1

      you can use coffee filters

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa Рік тому +1

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

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa Рік тому +1

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

  • @andrewmoryakov7556
    @andrewmoryakov7556 Рік тому +1

    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
    @seekertosecrets Рік тому +1

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

  • @thebestofall1471
    @thebestofall1471 Рік тому

    Use a ball joint for your elbow joint

  • @BobJeff-e4w
    @BobJeff-e4w Місяць тому

    Because you have to power the hydrogen generator with electricity you could use some of the hydrogen separated from the water and turn it into electricity by combining it back with oxygen. Search it up it is a great way to get infinite hydrogen and all you have to do is fill it up with water.

  • @gibaweba
    @gibaweba 6 місяців тому

    Where is a video with the full suite

  • @gachasomething6043
    @gachasomething6043 Рік тому

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

  • @Zane.Wellnitz
    @Zane.Wellnitz Рік тому +1

    How about titanium coated carbon fiber?

    • @nemesisobsidian
      @nemesisobsidian Рік тому +2

      Titanium can't be electroplated.

    • @Zane.Wellnitz
      @Zane.Wellnitz Рік тому +1

      @@nemesisobsidian not electroplated since it's obviously is not the answer. Layered...
      And it can actually
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  • @svjatgusar
    @svjatgusar Рік тому

    супер )! - огромное спасибо

  • @TheRealRomansThirteen
    @TheRealRomansThirteen 7 місяців тому

    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
    @svjatgusar Рік тому +1

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

    • @francescochristianmusso5067
      @francescochristianmusso5067 9 місяців тому

      It's those 5mm of stripped bare enamel copper that bring the electrons to the graphite coated layer we put onto the opposite side!

  • @oleglogvynenko6832
    @oleglogvynenko6832 11 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @the_bowyerblack_locust1837
    @the_bowyerblack_locust1837 6 місяців тому

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

  • @physicsbystanprisajny6284
    @physicsbystanprisajny6284 Рік тому

    There is electricity in there the cleaner u make the mettal

  • @agentt7665
    @agentt7665 Рік тому +1

    Can we just spray paint it instead?

  • @ROBINIS17
    @ROBINIS17 6 місяців тому

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

  • @Zangs_YT
    @Zangs_YT 5 місяців тому

    Esse caba ainda ta vivo?

  • @waytospergtherebro
    @waytospergtherebro Рік тому +7

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

  • @ravereviews6853
    @ravereviews6853 Рік тому

    Its good for you because it has electrolytes!

  • @dm.b7560
    @dm.b7560 Рік тому

    YOu mean you are actually "growing" copper?

  • @shidoriyah
    @shidoriyah Рік тому

    The real life Tony Stark.

  • @zxyeliz
    @zxyeliz 4 місяці тому

    Thanks so much for the upload. I've finally dipped my toe into the metal plating 3D print field. All the help I can get probably won't be enough. Thanks, again for the video and tips. Keep up the good work. Great watch.
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  • @JanoschNr1
    @JanoschNr1 Рік тому

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

    • @nemesisobsidian
      @nemesisobsidian Рік тому +1

      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.

  • @MuniMuni-zu1zf
    @MuniMuni-zu1zf Рік тому +1

    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 😂