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07 November 2003

Electro Zinc Plating

Adapted from A Thousand and One Formulas 1920 by Sidney Gernsback.

To zinc plate steel and other metallic objects mix together about 4 drams of zinc sulfate with 4 ounces of water. Place this solution in an ordinary glass jar; next fasten a wire to the positive pole of a battery. Let this wire lay submerged in the solution. The wire which you have fastened to the negative pole of the battery should be arranged so that it will hold some metal object which is to be zinc plated.

Drop the wire with object to be plated in the solution. Care must be taken not to let the two wires touch, for this will cause a short circuit of the battery. Using a 4-volt 60-ampere hour storage battery the action of the solution will be much quicker and the quicker will the zinc deposit itself on the object connected to the cathode.