Making Nickel Plated DIY Decorations!
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Dude, you have THE BEST element/ experiment channel on TH-cam
Totally agree!
Seriously! And even among his other videos, this one in particular was a big favorite of mine. Love it. Love the way he explained how his additives worked, showed their chemical structure, touched on how certain functional groups affected the process, etc. Absolutely amazing video, 11/10
i tell ya this video will get ALOT of views
@@BothHands1 I see you in every science video
NileRed would fight you
Imagine jumping in a bunch of leaves in autumm.... Made of nickel
That would hurt
What if they were made of Nickel..ous Cage?
@@CaveyMoth no
Ouch
Imagine jumping in the solution holding an electrode
This was one of my favorite of your videos ever, i loved the trial and error, perfecting your process along the way, and the results are stunningly beautiful. I loved the explanations of why certain additives were used, and how they improved your electrolyte solution. This was such an amazing video, thank you! I never could have imagined it would be possible to metal plate and organic non-conducting material. Fascinating
The mystery to myself of how organic materials, such as leather baby shoes, are metal plated has finally been solved.
He who persists, wins.
I never realized that making bronzed baby shoes involved so many steps and so many trade secrets.
Thanks for keeping up with this experiment, there isn't enough quality content available on this topic. I would love it if you would create a comprehensive tutorial on your method that covers everything you could possibly need to know.
Yes that is needed
My father was a chemist. We loved to go with him to his lab. Greetings from Arizona USA!
Walter White?
@@NichtNameee Lol
We actually do nickel plating in 3 or 4 tones, well copper and tin too so it is great to see the smart one here also does things we can do from scratch. We are very happy now and hey we love this channel always it is a great place to allow for thinking outside your normal daily ways. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Love the new experiment series! Thank you for also showing all the failed attempts! Very interesting!
For best "paint" coverage with least shape distortion, do several light passes with the can keeping it about 6-10" from the object being sprayed.
If you are doing several items at the same time then the layer on the first item should be dry by the time you finish the last one. Takes a bit of patience, but if you care about preserving the shape and lines then it pays off
Well....that was a job well done...the chemistry, the reasoning, the explanations, the learning from disappointing results, the endresult and the editing...all of it.
Very helpful as I am just learning how to electroplate. This video covers as much as twenty others I have watched and then some. Good teaching is a rare and valuable skill and you have it my friend.
Americans: We won't tell you what's in our plating bath, but you can buy the magic liquid for $100 a liter.
Russia: Нет проблем, товарищ!
Greatings from Portugal. Thanks for using one portuguese euro cent
When I saw the coin I came to the comments to see if someone else noticed.
Thanks again to use your own voice!
Yeah! It's one of the reasons I love this channel so much.
This is really top quality work, and your last one with the batteries too; great stuff! I love seeing the iterative process of experiments like this. The audience is out there for these kinds of videos, keep at it. Someone has to know how to help you get more exposure.
0:49 wow, what is that strange chemical compound brightening additive?
oh, it's black strap molasses!
Those moles sure have to give up a lot so we can electroplate stuff.
@@kenpickett9317 lol
@@kenpickett9317 Mollases lives matter!
Tinplating of Copper is also fun and also pretty easy. You just need to dissolve some tin in hydrochloric acid to form tin(II) chloride, then just add some thiourea to the solition and you are basically finished. now just dip any copper into that solution and it gets coated with tin (because of redox flipping).
great videos! love your channel!
I should try it, tin is better than nickel ?
That's the best and most informative video I've seen so far on copper/nikel electroplating.
While looking for bright nickel plating found this video, explaining very simply to understand...Thank you for sharing ....
Your trial and error process is amazing!!
Well done! My wish for next week: How to get a Xmas tree into a standard beaker...
Best comment on the thread 👍
Chemistry is awesome
Awesome video! Love your content, i watch you all the time. Can't wait for your next video.
A fun explanation. Thank you. Might I recommend you try physical vapor deposition. At least for the Cu layer.
I don't think this has been addressed so I want to mention it. The fact that the copper layer gradually propagates over the surface instead of covering it at once, means that the conductivity of the graphite layer is fairly low. This has to be taken into consideration either by adjusting the initial current or by using a better conductive primer.
Did that also, but with copper only. You can check the results on Alalit profile on DeviantArt.
Wow this guy is good at electroplating..Keep up the good work and upload more frequently..
Really enjoyed watching this process of plating. :) great results!
Your English has improved greatly over the years. If you work on your "th" pronunciation, it will be perfect.
Impossible for Russians. :-) Zey are eggzample zet it'z impossibull to do zet for zem. ;-)
No! I love his accent.
I just nickel plated my knob it looks stunning!
I'm sure you feel like a duck head 😂
Cannabis fan leaves would look great coated in nickel
thank you for this vid! I had been getting too rough Cu plating results, but adding alcohol as a surfectant to a weaker H2SO4 solution in the plating bath helped make a smoother surface. Plating metallic items is more involved. I was spending too much time in surface prep. graphite spray is very fast! esp if you would do many parts
Much much appreciated man.. Doing a great job... Absolutely love it
I WANT to Thank YOU so much For YOUR video... it’s much thank you
I always wanted to ep something. Thank you for the easy to follow instructions.
Amazing video, once I haved see at a store nikel plated leaves and o didn't know how the made it, now I know!
Lookup at the damascene copper plating process. It uses polyethylene glycol (PEG), sodium chloride (NaCl), Janus Green B dye, 3-mercaptopropanesulfonic acid (MPSA). Also consider using acetic acid instead of sulfuric acid. It produces beautiful smooth copper plating!
I swear if you were my chemistry teacher in high school instead of the granny who only succeeded in teaching me how to fall asleep in class, I'd have gotten into a university. Please use your mad skill to mix up a time portal solution and apply for a job at my high school in 2010!
Congratulations on such excellent results 🏵
Heck yeah! A new video! 👍👍👍
Trial and error, the mark of the true scientist.
3:18 Holy crap, that magnetic stirring mechanism is awesome.
It’s actually in a lot of hot plates
@@PotatoesAssistant I've gotta get me a hot plate like that.
Cavey Möth
Lol yea it’s really useful
@@PotatoesAssistant I could use it to make spaghetti.
I've not been doing things "right" as My only successes with plating have been on iron and copper with nickel (using sodium bicarbonate and additives) and iron plating with vinegar and Morton Lite Salt, and additives. the iron requires putting foam on the end of an iron strip, soaking the foam and then scrubbing the part until plated for good results. The solution oxidizes so doesn't stay good long, but the plating itself can get thick enough to pick up a penny with a small neodymium bar magnet.
Those looks great! Silver leafs! 👍 But how fragile the final products are? Is the metal coatings make them stronger?
“… I got zis ugly fing.”
Just broke me. 🤣
Super cool! beautiful leaves.
It would be amazing if one didn't have to dry the leaves before electroplating - so much of the vibrancy in a living plant is lost, but it's a cool video and proof of concept nonetheless! Looking forward to future developments
I love when he says "soliution" XD
Nice skills, the leafs look beautiful!
Thank you for making a great video.. Well done, and you have such beautiful results.. Awesome..
I tried to make nickel plating with nickel sulfate long time ago, but I couldn't get it. I will try again soon, this video was very explicative to me. An the all about the leaves was brilliant XD
When the Russian you learnt in school only helps you understand half the intro... feeling proud yet disappointed that I was once a B grade student .
THIS is so amazing! Thank you for this video! 😍
I loved your cat
Good stuff. Keep it up and maybe you will get many more viewers in time
oh god I guess this won't be that easy to make at home :D Thoi has all the chemicals and chemical equipment lol :D
You should plate eggs and send them to how to basic. Good publicity.
Wonder if it would look better if you started with a lot less current. Most others ive seen uses 0.01 to 0.05A for a few hours first and then gradually increases it as the copper layer starts to grow to get it even on the whole surface
I really liiked this one Thoisoi! Keep it up!
This Is cool as heck.
Excellent video! Thank you very much!
cute cat in the end as usual! 😻
My grandfather was an electroplater. He plated my mother's baby shoes in 1944, and we still have those shoes, though we no longer have my mother. She passed in 2016.
Hmmm... now that's some sort of INTERSTING thing 😎
I would pay hard cash to hear this guy recite lines from horror films...
Wow that was amazing, might have to try that one
This was really neat! And interesting! :-D I always wondered how that is done.
Very nice video with lots of detail! Keep up the good work
Hi my friend. I immensely enjoyed your video, particularly admire your philosophy to reveal the true nature of brightning agents used. For those who are the beginners in electrochemistry this video is a life changing one. Why? Do some research to discover how some of thw most successful companies protect their proprietry brightening formulas. Anyway, I would like to have some suggestions: first, it is very well understandable why you keep trying on acid baths instead of more powerful cynide based ones. Keep up with the good work! In order for shinny copper plating, can you do some experiments with aldehydes: benzaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, etc?
2. To reduce the oxidation tendency of freshly plated items, I would suggest you add small amount of 1-H benzotriazole which forms a polymeric layer and prevents oxidation.
3. Can you play with bath temperature and show us the results?
4. For the case of electropolishing: why did not you use simple phosphoric bath? Any idea about the difference of routine phosphoric bath with your current formulation?
Thanks heaps.
are you using naphthalene-1,5-disulfonic acid for the brightener?
Have you tried making only copper plating and the quickly spray it with lacquer(?) in aerosol?
Immersing in benzotriazole can prevent copper from oxidizing in the air.
I love this video! Well done sir. 👍
Did you try PCR - periodic current reversal to control evenness of plating?
Very cool 👍👍👍
Fascinating, thank you.
I would like to see a video on how to make platinum electrodes from its salts if its possible.
Great video.
This should be a chemistry lesson in school
Do a flower. :D This is beautiful.
How easy are they to break?
Interesting. I think casting could be easier if you are making a few pieces. Could make a one-sided mold in a plaster or silicon rubber (for pewter). The back-side of the leaf could be thickened with wax when needed.
Very nice. There's actually a metal sculpture I have that I would like to nickel plate. I guess I could do it if I bought a few chemicals, though I really would only want to do the one thing so it would be a waste. Also I'd want to clean the iron oxide and engine grease that's in the crevasses of the sculpture, and I guess probably I'd want maybe some nitric acid to do that, just dip it in it and it will dissolve a little bit of the metal and everything else..... but I don't want to turn my house into a chemistry lab.
Is it necessary to plate the graphite coated object with copper first, then nickel? Or can the nickel be plated directly onto the graphite?
Beautiful work! You should sell them!
You could make some very cool Christmas tree decorations, but they would be expensive.
Excellent work!!
This is the coolest video
What kinds of naphthalenesulfonic Acid are you using for the brightener?
3:15 - 3:22
he got time after one year😆😆
What did you add? 7:56
What was the final solution and what added
amazing work !
Can I use galvanizing spray instead of graphite spray? It has high zinc content
I found that copper acetate gave a much smoother, brighter finish than copper sulfate. I used honey as the brightening agent.
did you use nacl while making make nickel acetate?
Very cool 🥰
Very cool experiment with electroplating I enjoyed this video very much very cool I had a lot of fun watching it only thing I think you should have used as an example of electroplating is like car bumpers and how they can even electroplate plastic using an etching method they use an acid etching on the plastic to make the electroplating adhere cool video peace out have a great day
Очень хорошо!
I was hoping to be able to try this is my home lab... but some of those chemicals are difficult for me to find.... But it's still wonderful to watch.
can you do testings on samples before plating and after plating
VERY nice work!!