Galvanoplastics

Please find an insect - horsefly. Next, a rhinoceros beetle.





Then, the surface of the insect must be made conductive. To do this we put a graphite spray. And hung it (insect) on thin wires in a special frame. To connect this frame & quot; - & quot; power source.



Drop a guinea in the plating bath. To a copper plate connected to the donor & quot; + & quot ;.



We reserve the beetle is covered with copper. The time depends on the size of the object and many more from what. Beetle swam two days.
Parallel payayu chain of copper wire.



More ...
payayu


Well, beetle zamednilsya to him I soldered chain. The thickness of the copper about 1 mm.



Now, the beetle must be cleaned of scale. For this lowers it into a solution of citric acid.



Thus, after 40 min copper bleached.



So, as a modern copper oxides and still be dark, I decided to wear out its force. I dangle beetle in a jar at the bottom of which poured ammonia.



Artificial aging process is ... Gradually appears patina. The degree of aging depends on the time spent in ammonia vapor. After 5 hours



That's what the beetle has become after 12 hours



Now you have to give the beetle shine. I take a drill and a steel brush Kratz



After brushing polirnul felt with GOI paste.



The result had been a key here.



Source Vallioolin

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