Electroplating Update #1

For the original post, see here: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/adventures-electroplating-casten-riepling-twzwc/

I got a bigger tank and added an air pump to improve oxygenation.

I also tried getting an inexpensive platinum plated grid anode to reduce anode degradation and sediment in the tank. The emphasis here is on "tried". Here is the "noble anode":

It was much longer, but alas, succumbed to the digestive qualities of the plating solution. I'll either try a more expensive one or switch to graphite rods.

For this next plating, I used a larger model as a test, but it's not a final. But I was pretty happy with the results. It's fairly heavy. I'll have to weigh the PLA figure before and after plating to see how much copper mass has been added.

Here are the results:

This was a trial model and won't be completed. But the results are largely satisfactory.