Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Copper Plating
unfy:
14ga wire is way too thick :(
difficult to manipulate, etc.
unfy:
Grabbed a 50ft thing of Cat3 cable from hardware store for... $8 ? something like that. It looks to be 24awg solid core. Easy to strip (am i a pro meth-head now?) and makes a sturdy yet workable hanger:
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for amusement ---- when i first started looking for supplies, i couldn't find a copper sheet / flashing / plate to act as a source of copper on the anode.
found nothing, decided to try using the hammered out tubing to see if it works etc.
well..... while browsing for other items of world domination, i saw this:
i dunno i fit's solid copper or coated/plated or what (claims it is cast copper), but it's heavy enough to be. didn't pick it up, but it would undoubtedly need to be wire brushed to get any protective coating off and prolly cut into to see if it is indeed solid copper.
ghknives:
Here is the information on my anodizer.
unfy:
Just looked at UPS tracking number from Midway. Everything arrives tomorrow. I thought I had more time to prepare! Eeek!
Notching the pipe with the pipe cutter and tesing hanging a bullet from it (worked):
I spaced out my notches to be a lil over 1/2 an inch from each other. This gave me 96 notches give or take:
Now on to the cat3 -- it has 6 wires in it, so i needed 17 sections (just so some extra). I made these a little bit longer than they needed to be, which is always a good idea:
Using the tip of a needle nose plier, just nudge one end an opening and then pull rest out the other side, real easy and alot like crab / lobster.
Untwisting is a bit of a pain in the ass, but after getting one end stripped, grab with pair of pliars and scoot the rest off (sliding along copper wire) with another pair... squirts right off.
unfy:
--- Quote from: ghknives on December 18, 2011, 05:13:20 PM ---Here is the information on my anodizer.
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What do you use for the variac and rectifier ?
Similarly, I was debating an LM317 to bring the 13v 3amp dc down to 1.5v or so.
And just for some math fun:
100 bullets is about..... 0.52 square feet of surface area ....which means to plate 0.001 inch of copper on to it would take 9.27 amp-hours. Since I want around 0.003 or so... I need 28 amp hours....
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