electrojoining (electro plate 'welding') - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2025, 10:30:20 am
content: Does anyone have information about this topic save for the Nicoform company that carpet bombed the search results?I can't find this anywherehttps://inis.iaea.org/records/esb8d-qgc07After a few hours of looking this is the only document I found, which is somewhat illuminatinghttps://www.mdpi.com/2504-4494/7/5/157I may try this method because I have 2l of copper plate made up, though it is optimized for high throw, not sure if that is good or bad in this situation.The first one (sandia) is interesting because it sounds like they are working on some precise stuff. There is some interest in the process doing crass high speed assembly line things that later involve forges and such, which I don't care for.The only clue I got is maybe that you need a few different solutions. Like you do the base with normal solution and run the cap on a high throw solution to try to fill in that nasty ass V shaped void that shows up in PDF#2 cross section cut.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2025, 10:48:42 am
content: Are you a registered "user?"

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2025, 11:01:00 am
content: I just linked it for the name most places say its paper only or something, I doubt they even have it.MDPI should work though

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2025, 11:03:00 am
content: I believe its stored on spy paper at some university

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 01:46:37 am
content: What I am most interested in would be things like welding seams on amorphous cobalt tubes, flange joints and stuff like thatI have a feeling copper might be strait forward. I am just studying using Pulse or Pulse Reverse electroplating techniques on it, I think I am close to dialing in on some test parametersand I would LOVE to hear about what the hell they do with right angle joints too. Though it might be the same thing really.Always, my biggest god damn problem with welding is the distortion. You THINK you can get away from machining operations but you can't get away from machining operations and they happen to be god damn forming operations usually because of warping. If you can get it down to just precise cutting then you can painstakingly do it by hand if you dress your cutter well.. I don't mind sitting there like a borg and slowly grinding or filing something but the stuff with the presses gets into my headAnd I am also very interested in re-reading my multifuction generator manual to see what kind of waveforms it can put out with pulse if you use pulse and sequencing together (8000 long list). I was using a old wavetek, and it can do as good as pulse polarity reversal, maybe the MFG can do it, or I can use the BFG395 (big function generator, wavetek ARB, about the size of a small PC case, or the tektronix BFG2020)

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2025, 04:20:07 am
content: I got a real PH meter and some probes for trying this with real numbers but it might take a while for that stuff to repair /restore/clean whatever (VWR)If I am going for welding I think it might be important to know the real pH and stuff