Plating At Home
Anyone have updates? Here are mine:
I have a pile of blasted smaller parts.
Bought a 26 dollar grille rotisserie kit a Lowes.
Couple plastic colanders at True Value.
I built a rotisserie zinc electroplating tumbler to evenly expose smaller parts to the solution and dissuade / wash off poor plating leaving the better plating to stick.
My solution has been sitting stagnant for several weeks but I ran it thru a filter cloth and ran my tumbler for 10 minutes and already I could see an even plating.
I cut off all the tongs except one which penetrates into one of the colanders and is connected to a perimeter waffle shape wire. There was a weight doo-dad with my rotisserie kit so I connected the negative side of the system to the weight to have a slip commutator feeding neg juice to the rotating rod.
Running a wall wart power supply salvaged from some gadget or the other. It's rated at 600ma 5V. So, it feeds my parts about 650ma which is supposed to be near optimal. I have read 500 - 600 ma is best.
I am hoping an hour in the machine will do it. Results to follow.