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Q. Hi all,
This is Rajesh from India. I am Hobbyist of wax art. Recently I read some article on hollow article prepared by using electroforming.
My idea is to create a wax art, paint it with electro-conductive material & electroform it using silver. I have searched a lot for electro-conductive paint for wax, but unable to locate any.
Please suggest me with the best option to do this (cheaper is preferred).
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Hobbyist - Pune, Maharashtra, India
May 27, 2010
A. Pranam Rajesh
Try graphite powder
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Amazon [affil links] or bronze powder
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Amazon [affil links] . You may prepare your own conductive paint -- simply mix bronze powder with very diluted nitro lacquer
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There are some very good infos on D-I-Y electroforming, some good and download free books on electroforming can be downloaded from internet archive website (even booklet by M.H.Jacoby -inventor of process/in german -- but try google translator, it is free. Hope it helps and good luck!
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A. Hi Rajesh,
A lot of people are doing electroforming on wax. Silver conductive ink
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Regards
T.K. Mohan
plating process supplier - Mumbai, India
A. Silver Electroforming can be done on wax in a Silver Potassium Cyanide Electroplating bath with higher metal concentration.
If the wax piece is finished properly than the result will be good ... Use a fine copper powder
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- Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
A. Brass powder or gold powder or graphite powder; 3 powder : 2 lacquer : 16 thiner
Silver electroforming: 1-silver p cyanide, 2-potassium cyanide, 3-potassium carbonate, 4-potassium hydroxide, 5-antimony potassium tartrate, 6-selenious acid.
Good luck.
Majed Janineh- Beith Lehem, Palestine
Is it necessary to remove wax from hollow electroformed jewelry?
Q. Please tell me if I have to empty my electroformed gold pendant of wax for sale and how can I do it?
Best regards,
- shiraz iran
February 3, 2017
A. It is not necessary to remove the wax, but doing so will make the electroformed product much lighter! You will, of course, use a low melting point wax and have designed the electroform to have an escape hole for it, so all you do is carefully heat the electroform to a suitable temperature and the wax will flow out. Alternatively, you can use a suitable solvent, but that will depend on the type of wax used.
Trevor Crichton
R&D practical scientist
Chesham, Bucks, UK
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