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WARNING! USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN WORKING WITH THESE CHEMICALS AND PROCEDURES...WEAR PROPER EYE PROTECTION, PROPER BREATHING MASKS AND PROPER HAND AND BODY PROTECTIVE CLOTHING WHEN HANDLING OR USING ANY OF THESE CHEMICALS AND OTHER NECESSARY EQUIPMENT! DO NOT USE OR PROCESS ANY OF THESE ACTIONS IN AREAS OF THE HOME THAT HAVE EASY ACCESS BY FAMILY MEMBERS OR PETS, AS THE CHEMICALS INVOLVED WILL CAUSE EITHER SICKNESS AND/OR DEATH IF ACCIDENTALLY INGESTED. PLAINLY MARK ALL CONTAINERS HOLDING ANY OF THESE DRY AND WET MATERIALS WITH THE EXPRESSION: "DANGER! --==POISON==-- DO NOT EAT OR DRINK THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOTTLE/BAG/CONTAINER OR HANDLE WITHOUT PROPERLY PROTECTING YOUR EYES, FACE, LUNGS, HANDS AND OPEN AREAS OF SKIN FROM ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTACT WITH THIS MATERIAL!"
As an aside to the use of the ATX Power Supply, now that I know it will work swimmingly to serve the needs of "The Frankinjector" Monster EFI Cleaning Machine, I have another less pressing project involving nickel plating the "Hold Down Claw" for my 3.4L Engine's Oil Pump Drive. The one that came off the source engine is badly rusted and corroded, with flaking nickel plating that needs a simple re-plating job to fix it back up to snuff. AFTER DONNING ALL THE NECESSARY PROTECTIVE GEAR AS LISTED IN THE WARNING ABOVE...All I will need is some Powdered Nickel Oxide, a liter of Distilled Malt Vinegar and a Good Sealing Mason Jar to pour in about 50-60 grams of the Nickel Oxide and about 300 ml of the Vinegar, then shake it up real good to agitate the mix and let it percolate for a week to ten days away from where anybody can grab the jar and mess with its highly toxic contents. The stuff will turn into a nice, emerald green electrolyte called Nickel Acetate. Then, all I will need to do is prep a pure nickel welding rod as the negative (-) Cathode to make contact with the submerged, cleaned Hold-Down-Claw and use a stainless steel rod for the positive (+) Anode. With the ATX (+) lead (Yellow) attached to the S/S Rod and the Black Ground (-) attached to the Nickel Welding Rod, if all goes well, I should be able to perfectly re-plate the Hold-Down-Claw with a tough, new corrosion resistant Nickel plating in less than a minute or two!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdsl-...eature=related
I really like the idea of electroplating that hold down. I had no idea electroplating was that easy
Yes... but working with any Heavy Metal that is rendered in solution requires very great care. For example, using Stainless Steel...either as an Anode or a Cathode and which generally includes about 12% Chromium, can release dangerous Halogenic Gases that will kill you...DRT (Dead...Right THERE---->)
If you inhale the fumes that will exude from the Nickel Acetate Electrolyte when either simply exposing metals to be plated ...even before applying an electric current... the fumes are highly toxic, carcinogenic and dangerous if applied to the skin ("Nickel Itch" lifelong contact dermatitis to ANYTHING that contains the metal Nickel) or accidentally ingested...and cause vomiting and even seizures... So rubber gloves and an NBC style breathing mask might be ordinary equipment when working with this stuff.... Please BE CAREFUL!
As an aside to the use of the ATX Power Supply, now that I know it will work swimmingly to serve the needs of "The Frankinjector" Monster EFI Cleaning Machine, I have another less pressing project involving nickel plating the "Hold Down Claw" for my 3.4L Engine's Oil Pump Drive. The one that came off the source engine is badly rusted and corroded, with flaking nickel plating that needs a simple re-plating job to fix it back up to snuff. AFTER DONNING ALL THE NECESSARY PROTECTIVE GEAR AS LISTED IN THE WARNING ABOVE...All I will need is some Powdered Nickel Oxide, a liter of Distilled Malt Vinegar and a Good Sealing Mason Jar to pour in about 50-60 grams of the Nickel Oxide and about 300 ml of the Vinegar, then shake it up real good to agitate the mix and let it percolate for a week to ten days away from where anybody can grab the jar and mess with its highly toxic contents. The stuff will turn into a nice, emerald green electrolyte called Nickel Acetate. Then, all I will need to do is prep a pure nickel welding rod as the negative (-) Cathode to make contact with the submerged, cleaned Hold-Down-Claw and use a stainless steel rod for the positive (+) Anode. With the ATX (+) lead (Yellow) attached to the S/S Rod and the Black Ground (-) attached to the Nickel Welding Rod, if all goes well, I should be able to perfectly re-plate the Hold-Down-Claw with a tough, new corrosion resistant Nickel plating in less than a minute or two!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdsl-...eature=related
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I really like the idea of electroplating that hold down. I had no idea electroplating was that easy
Yes... but working with any Heavy Metal that is rendered in solution requires very great care. For example, using Stainless Steel...either as an Anode or a Cathode and which generally includes about 12% Chromium, can release dangerous Halogenic Gases that will kill you...DRT (Dead...Right THERE---->)
If you inhale the fumes that will exude from the Nickel Acetate Electrolyte when either simply exposing metals to be plated ...even before applying an electric current... the fumes are highly toxic, carcinogenic and dangerous if applied to the skin ("Nickel Itch" lifelong contact dermatitis to ANYTHING that contains the metal Nickel) or accidentally ingested...and cause vomiting and even seizures... So rubber gloves and an NBC style breathing mask might be ordinary equipment when working with this stuff.... Please BE CAREFUL!
LOL jk, im tired and i thought it was funny.
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