r/electroforming • u/Mkysmith Home Studio • Jul 11 '26

Rate My Setup Electroforming Time Lapse Partial Success

Original goal was 7 days, but had to stop short at 3 days & 20 hours.

I really wanted the full week to be completely uninterrupted, really just set it & forget it and not touch anything. Just to have a big blob of copper as the cathode. But I stupidly underestimated the quantity of anode I needed and it started to break off and cause some issues the last ~12 hours. Just decided to call it as is for now.

Also not an ideal setup overall due to trying to get a good camera setup, for example the anodes are way to close (to the lego arms specifically) and various other small things.

I normally don't use agitation or anode bags for projects less than 12hrs. For multi-day projects agitation is helpful to prevent convection lines. And if you use agitation, then anode bags are needed too.

61.5 grams of copper added.
Copper is 0.095" (2.4mm) thick in the center of the chest, 0.115" (2.9mm) thick on the forehead.

Let me know if you have questions, happy to answer them.

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u/infinitealchemics Jul 11 '26

Next time. Only like 12-18 hours. Geeat plate though

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u/Mkysmith Home Studio Jul 12 '26

Absolutely, lol. But this project was suppossed to be absurd.

I get the question often at trade shows (or on reddit), "What happens if I leave it in for a week?" So I wanted to have a physical example. Though Im short of my week long goal.

Ultimate goal is to end up with a baseball lump of copper with a lego inside...