Thursday, June 06, 2024
Bizzare probe tip etch attempt with KOH
I had heard potassium hydroxide was the electrolyte of choice for etching titanium wires. I tried it on my Nichrome. It is much less ... aggressive. I had to run it at 12V to get anything to etch, and then, well, I bring you The Demon Probe:
Totally unusable, but very eldritch. There's a lot of gnarly corrosion on there that won't boil off.
Conclusion: salt works better for Nichrome wire tips. But I will try to source some titanium wire and see what that does. Anybody got donations?
