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Thread: Adventures in electrolysis
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29th May 2011, 07:14 PM #1
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.Last edited by Pac man; 29th May 2011 at 10:18 PM. Reason: typos
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29th May 2011, 11:50 PM #2
I used a length of galvanised speedbrace from a nearby building site a few weeks ago and got the white build up you describe. It's just the zinc turning into zinc oxide as it takes up the excess ions in the solution, so no, you are not going to zinc plate that way!
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