Alchemy - electroforming on plastic, but really it's alchemy ;-)

[curious aardvark]

Pictures in first post.

Hit the first snag last night.

Printed and painted a small cuddling owl. 10% infill.
Bloody thing floats - well it would wouldn't it, it's practically hollow and totally sealed :-)

At the moment I have no way to hold it under the surface while it's coated. Need some kind of clamp to hold the 4 ply really stiff wire I made onto the pipe.
Can't find any of my grip clamps - always the way lol.
Probably print a screw clamp later :-)

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Left this printing while I was out: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1673030

Works a treat, the screw is perfectly sized. I printed a rubber end stop for better grip.

clampedowls_800x600.jpg

So in the end I used an elastic band gun barrel extender:http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1673030
Pput the wire through the end hole to hold the owls in place, and clamped it to the side of the bucket - I mean 'tank' :-) and ran a wire from there to the pipe.
Gonna leave it for about 6 hours, till i get back from tai chi tonight.
Assuming the pla doesn't get eaten by the acid - should work :-)