plating balls

[Rocky Johnson]

I used to copper plate fish hooks to keep them from rusting by puting them in water with salt and pennies. Reading the post on Remington balls I though I could plate lead ball the same way, WRONG it don't work with lead. Rocky /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[musketman]

But that's what these test are for... :winking: :haha:

Now we know...

 

[Stumpkiller]

Well, I don't know much about plating metals, but I'm an expert on corroding them. As a sailboat owner I am constantly on the lookout for galvanic corrosion - which is plating in the opposite direction. Whenever you have two dissimilar metals in electrical contact (even if it is only through the electrolites dissolved in water - i.e. salt) one of them will act as an anode and the other a cathode. What you don't want is something important to become an anode. Anodes dissolve. Plating is the process of getting the dissolved stuff to stick to something else. When you put the fish hooks in with the pennies and added salt you actually made a battery and electroplated the hooks. I think fish hooks are already high carbon steel that has a bronze plating (others are stainless steel), so you are adding plating in a salt environment that is worse than the water you will be using them in. Here's a chart of most noble to least for metals. Those at the top right will lose to anything to their lower left.

So what does this help us with in regards to plating our own balls? Dunno. In the immortal words of Rudyard Kipling: "Balls, said the Queen, if I had them I would be King"

 

[Hawkeye]

A sailboat owner!!! Stay away from me, I finally got rid of the airplane bug and sailboats look way too cool to get near.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Think of them as airplanes you can sleep on and keep a refrigerator full of beer cool - and if you crash into the earth it means the water is shallow enough that you can wade to safety. ::

I intended to get into airplanes in college (I met my wife in Avaition Club) - but then I found out what ground school and flight time costs. They'll let any bozo drive a powerboat or sail a sailboat. No talent necessary! I still fly R/C airplanes. I can fly wild or expansively, and when I hit a patch of heavy gravity I don't get burried with the plane.

 

[Myra lou]

Correct me if I'm wrong........Isn't a boat a hole in the water you throw money in???????

 

Correct me if I'm wrong........Isn't a boat a hole in the water you throw money in???????

No you're right!
Just as a horse is a hole in your barn you shovel money into.
(o.K. for you anthropomorphists there, I happen to love horses. Nothing wrong with horses, or airplanes or boats.
That's my disclaimer.
Now KATS is another story. ::

 

[Rebel]

belong in the water, and Horses belong in the Freezer with the deer and the antelope. ::