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Nickel Plating Handbook [pdf]

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superkuh ◴[] No.42190874[source]
I like the idea of adding extra anode wires to within cavities to get better coverage that this document suggests.

My favorite type of nickel plating for home scale is nickel acetate. It can be as simple as a 6v lantern battery, a nickel guitar string, and some vinegar (though guitar wires make terrible electroplating electrodes since they break and fall (something this document says can be mitigating by using a titanium basket)).

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RF_Savage ◴[] No.42191278[source]
Now that's something to try. Kitchen scale electroplating. But nickel acetate sounds bioavailable.
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1. 01100011 ◴[] No.42191665[source]
We thought copper salts were benign until we recently started linking them to dopamine neuron death. Too much of anything absorbed into the body is rarely a good thing.

I think it's tempting to get into kitchen chemistry but you can very quickly find yourself playing with things that should not be in your home. Having a baby has made me question a lot of my home experiments and made me realize how sloppy I was.