Electroforming (electroplating) onto Wax?

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

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!

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Bureau of Standards: Electroforming of Waveguide Components (1957)
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Fabrication of liquid-rocket thrust chambers by electroforming (1974)
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Principles of electroplating and electroforming by William Blum (1949)
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A. Hi Rajesh,

A lot of people are doing electroforming on wax. Silver conductive ink ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] 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 [affil link] mixed with NC thinner ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] and NC lacquer ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] 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. 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.