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Calculating amount of metal plated on a part

I am looking for a simple way to calculate the amount of copper (either in grams or oz per square feet, per amp minute, or etc.) plated onto a small part (acid copper). I know the square feet of the part, the ASF and the time need to plate for a thickness of 200 micro inches.

Scott Foley
Springfield, Missouri
1999

Theoretically, a copper sulphate ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] bath will plate 1.099 grams somewhere on the part in 1 amp hour.

James Watts
- Navarre, Florida
1999

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Without sounding like a spokesman for them, I have to say that there is a table in the Metal Finishing Guidebook that has all of the data needed to calculate amps, times and thicknesses. I know I refer to it regularly. It's hard to keep formulas and calculations memorized when you have 50 other projects and brush fires constantly clogging up your thought processes.

Jim Conner
Mabank, Texas USA
1999

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