Electroforming on Wax?

A. Pranam Rajesh
Try graphite powder [on eBay or Amazon] or bronze powder [on eBay or Amazon]. You may prepare your own conductive paint -- simply mix bronze powder with very diluted nitro lacquer [on eBay or Amazon].

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!

A. Hi Rajesh,

A lot of people are doing electroforming on wax. Silver conductive ink [on eBay or Amazon] is the best option and is available. Try looking for it.
Regards

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 [on eBay or Amazon] mixed with NC thinner [on eBay or Amazon] and NC lacquer [on eBay or Amazon] and spray it on the wax, this will make the wax conductive ... rest of the electroplating process. If you want to make it hollow than you will have to deposit higher thickness, drain out the wax, and after that do the surface finishing. We are doing silver electroforming very effectively using the above process ....

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.

A. Hi Prateek. By 'use Viper Resin', I assume you mean how can you create a part by 3-D printing using this resin, and then gold or silver plate it?
Yes, you 3-D print the part, then you can metallize it with conductive ink or conductive paint or electroless plating technologies, and then you can do the electroplating. But 3 MM is very very heavy plating, about 100X typical plating thicknesses.

Obviously, each of these three steps are the subject of many threads here if you search the site, as well as books; but if you spend a few paragraphs telling us what you have experience in, and what you don't, we can start narrowing in on the things that may be most helpful to you. Good luck!

Regards,

A. Hi again. I'm not familiar with the Viper resin, but it is possible that it can be melted or otherwise dissolved away. So, if you have the 3-D printing mastered, your project doesn't sound much different than the electroforming of hollow gold jewelry, which is traditionally done on wax. Good luck

Regards,

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.