Thread: Adventures in electrolysis

This afternoons adventure ( whilst procrastinating from study and assignments) saw me puling apart a Stanley 5 1/2 and placing in the long bucket for an electrolysis bath.

I use what i call a "Major Panic setup" right down to the Tricky dicky power supply. Initially i used an angle bracket for the positive lead (anode). Left it for about 10 minutes.
When i came back it did not look like the bubbles that produce the brown soup but more like bubbles producing white floaty bits ( yes i know i should have taken pics)

Long story short the angle bracket was zinc plated. I changed the anode to steel and brown soup is now the result.By the way the resulting corrosion on the bracket was a white zinc oxidation.

My question is o oracle and collective brains of the forum is if i continued with the Zinc anode would i have electroplated the plane?

Back to study now or maybe some more procrastination.