Friday, October 10, 2025

 

The Ancient Eastern Art Of Bulshito - "Stainless Steel Part 2"

Yep, stung again by an Amazon supplier. Advertised as 0.3mm Stainless Steel Wire. Absolutely not, as you can see. Some plated copper muck:

 

So three spools of that can go in the bin. My first clue was that it started copper-plating the spoon, er, cathode in my electrolysis setup:


FYI I was using 1% nitric acid rather than my usual salt water. I intended to see if that would stop the production of cloudy iron hydroxide so I could tell when the end fell off the etched probe more easily. Turns out I need to try a different batch of wire, huh?


# posted by vik-olliver @ 6:26 AM
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My sympathies. Not long ago I bought some expensive, super thin, Nitinol wire for some experiments, turns out the stuff they sold me was not prepared to "remember" anything.
# posted by Blogger OfItselfSo : October 10, 2025 11:40 AM
 
On the plus side, you've invented a very expensive way to manufacture copper plated spoons.
# posted by Blogger nutchuckle : October 10, 2025 9:33 PM
 
There may be practical applications if I ever lay hold of conductive resin.
# posted by Blogger vik-olliver : October 10, 2025 10:39 PM
 
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