Thursday, May 22, 2014

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Electroplating Steel Sword with Aluminum

Sanded Blade with 100 grid sand paper.



















Cleaned Blade with Muriatic Acid.


















Dissolved Aluminum into Muriatic Acid.

















Applied Aluminum/ Muriatic Acid to blade with 5 volts (Steel blade = 0 volts ; Al/ Muriatic Acid = 5 volts)


















Result: Blade partially plated with Aluminum.