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Home Made Electroplating: The Benefits and HAZARDS
This Dumbass has his facts only PARTLY right...and when it comes to any project that involves potentially dangerous consequences if you Eff it Up... A Little Knowledge makes a Yo-Yo Dangerous...and in this case... that Yo-Yo is THIS GUY!
After watching Ding-Dong here Sing-Song his way into a Lung Cancer Ward while doing this inside his home... Read the intelligent comments others give him as feed back with very good warnings that what he is doing is unsafe ...and STILL this Dumb F*ck misses the point!
If you are trying any of these methods ...LOOK AROUND AND GET AS MUCH GOOD, FACTUAL INFORMATION YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON ABOUT THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
Don't rely on the first YouTube video you run across as being like the "Gospel According to St. F*ckup"...here.
Electrolysis is the least destructive method of removing rust as it does not disturb un-rusted metal. Your finished part will be free of abrasion. This is ...
Last edited by 60dgrzbelow0; 10-27-2009, 09:46 PM.
Here is yet another ill-informed Jackass Alchemist who's fallen in love with "Hydrogen Di-Oxide" as the Fuel of the Future (in spite of his belated pop-up disclaimers to the contrary)...while using 10 Amps of house current; apparently because this brilliant genius gets his electric power from the Lightning Fairy.... to breakdown salty water electrolytically while using, yet again, Stainless Steel Cups as his Anodes and Cathodes while "Creating Hydrogen Fuel...!"
But worse than that ...He's standing over this experiment breathing huge quantities of Hexavalent Chromium gas...and just wait until you see this Yo-Yo's demonstration of how to make use of the Hydrogen and Oxygen by-products. So here again is another aspect of using electrolysis without knowing all the facts... and hovering over the apparatus while doing it! (Bad Idea....) I get a kick out of all these pseudo-scientists claiming they will find "The Secret of Using Water to Replace Gasoline" since one gallon of pump gas has about 132x10 to the 6th power of joules of energy...equivalent to 125,000 BTU or 36,650 watt-hours of energy. In Movie Magic Special Effects terms...that comes out to the power of say... fourteen sticks of 50/50 Nitro-Dynamite. Beat THAT ...Aquaman!
How to, for only a few dollars, create hydrogen from water, salt and electricity. This is an experiment that produces explosive gases, involves electricity a...
Last edited by 60dgrzbelow0; 10-27-2009, 09:53 PM.
Okay... I was looking around trying to find the Green Powdered Nickel Oxide...and ... no luck... BUT... There is a guy on eBay selling the anhydrous version of the finished Nickel Acetate for around $30.00 + S&H. As for the "Pure Nickel" necessary as the Anode... I searched high and low for some also...and all the purest castings and ingots of the stuff cost a small fortune. Then I remembered that mixed in amongst all the coiled up and worn out guitar strings that I regularly go through on all of my guitars....are the ones that are always made of "Pure Nickel" wound on steel wire...so I intend to scavenge through the coil pile and just unwind all of the Nickel off of the steel inner strings and use them for my necessary "Pure Nickel" source!
Last edited by 60dgrzbelow0; 10-29-2009, 05:09 PM.
Then I remembered that mixed in amongst all the coiled up and worn out guitar strings that I regularly go through on all of my guitars....are the ones that are always made of "Pure Nickel" wound on steel wire...so I intend to scavenge through the coil pile and just unwind all of the Nickel off of the steel inner strings and use them for my necessary "Pure Nickel" source!
does your last name rhyme with McGuyver?
that is some damn good resourceful thinking...
too bad i haven't broken any of my larger strings lately. it's always the high strings that snap on me... but a good source only seems to be a wal-mart away.
1995 Monte Carlo LS 3100, 4T60E...for now, future plans include driving it until the wheels fall off!
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I like the Brass Wound Ernie Balls for my Acoustics ...and the #9 Nickel Wound Ernie Ball Slinkys for my electric gits. Find them on sale in nice, inexpensive groups of three to five sets on eBay. I'm a long time Blues Guitar fanatic...and for those who want some of THE BEST FREE HELP YOU WILL EVER GET IN YOUR NATURAL LIFE TO LEARN AND PLAY THE BLUES ON YOUR GUITAR(S)...on all aspect of playing The Blues...and even some popular contemporary guitar licks, riffs and How-Tos... You have just GOT to check out this awesome and very entertaining and personable British Guy who goes by the name of "DeltaBluesTips"...!:
too bad i haven't broken any of my larger strings lately. it's always the high strings that snap on me... but a good source only seems to be a wal-mart away.
LOL... If that is true... Then I think that I am in a Good "Company of McGuyvers" in this place... We are one Hell of Group of ...what did The Bard call us? Oh yes... "We Few...We Happy Few... We Band of Brothers...". All of us are always thinking and looking and learning from one another... Here is a Cool Trick that McGuyver would appreciate...
Before going to your next Rave with any "Store Bought" Glow Sticks... Just make your own.... with the following ingredients:
Open a Freshly Effervescent Bottle of Mountain Dew
Drink about 3/4 of of it...
Leave the cap off of the bottle and drop in about 1/4 Teaspoon Full of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda...Just a smidgen...really!
Then add only Three (3) Cap-fulls of Regular Hydrogen Peroxide...
Now...Put the Cap Back on TIGHT and Just Shake the Sh*t out of the Mountain Dew Bottle...and watch what happens...
Last edited by 60dgrzbelow0; 10-29-2009, 06:55 PM.
Yes... and now...Young Skywalker... since you've passed the first in the series of the "Tests For Acceptance into the McGyver Group"...you must remember that you are NOT a Jedi Yet... From here ... You must go to the Degoba System...There... you will meet Yoda ... The Jedi Master who instructed me... ("Just so you know..." This is the part where you spit out the Glowing Mountain Dew Snow Cone while laying face down in the snow ....and then... while reaching with a trembling hand towards your McGyver Sponsor, you cry out plaintively..."Forgive!...Forgive!"...)
Last edited by 60dgrzbelow0; 10-29-2009, 11:33 PM.
but it was all the rage a few years ago to poke a pinhole in the cap of a diet coke bottle, throw a bunch of mentos in and get the cap on in time to watch the show.
1995 Monte Carlo LS 3100, 4T60E...for now, future plans include driving it until the wheels fall off!
Latest nAst1 files here!
Need a wiring diagram for any GM car or truck from 82-06(and 07-08 cars)? PM me!
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