Every now and again I nickel electro-plate something I've made in the workshop to stop it rusting - I have a plastic bucket full of plating solution that gets poured into a suitably shaped container and off we go.
Now realistically things are usually long and thin - shafts and suchlike as was the case today (an 18" x 3/4" locking bar for my universal wood worker) so I've decided to make up a dedicated 160 mm cylindrical tank out of some 160 mm underground soil pipe (now on order ) about 2 foot tall.
However all my anodes are the conventional (about 1" square) chunks of nickel not suited to tall thin tanks. It occurred to me that just maybe pure nickel welding rods dangled down the tank would fit the bill.
Now all the nickel welding electrodes that I see on eBay are arc welding ones with flux coating, easy to knock / crumble off but is there a better source of pure nickel rod in (say) 3.2 mm - or even flat bar - at a reasonable price?
Now realistically things are usually long and thin - shafts and suchlike as was the case today (an 18" x 3/4" locking bar for my universal wood worker) so I've decided to make up a dedicated 160 mm cylindrical tank out of some 160 mm underground soil pipe (now on order ) about 2 foot tall.
However all my anodes are the conventional (about 1" square) chunks of nickel not suited to tall thin tanks. It occurred to me that just maybe pure nickel welding rods dangled down the tank would fit the bill.
Now all the nickel welding electrodes that I see on eBay are arc welding ones with flux coating, easy to knock / crumble off but is there a better source of pure nickel rod in (say) 3.2 mm - or even flat bar - at a reasonable price?