Subject: Re: silverplating on wax?

From: [email-masked] (Steve Rayner)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 11:02:09 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Dion Hollenbeck) says:

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>Subject: Re: silverplating on wax?
>Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 03:19:22 GMT
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>>> ka0osk  writes:
>
>Since you had nothing in your posting, I am assuming you are wondering
>how to do silverplating on wax.  I seem to remember of a technique
>that put a very thin layer of graphite on the surface of the was and
>the graphite would be electrically conductive and you would end up
>actually plating the graphite, not the wax.
>
>dion
>
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>Dion Hollenbeck (619)597-7080x164                 Email: [email-masked]
>                                             http://www.vigra.com/~hollen
>Sr. Software Engineer - Vigra Div. of Visicom Labs  San Diego, California
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I did this with a piece of plastic once.  It works.  Warm the wax, and 
roll in powdered graphite.  The plastic I plated was painted, and rolled 
in graphite while the paint was wet.
-- 
Steve. 

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From: Dion Hollenbeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 03:19:22 GMT

dion