whats going on here

[bobby7821]

I was playing around in the garage with a set up to plate copper and thought i would see if i could transfer some stainless steel the same way so i used some stainless steel wire as my anode bakeing soda as my electrolite the solution turned a slight blueish color i first used a penny for the chromode end ended up with what looked like a chromed penny the plate was very good and dorable so i used the same method on a throtle bracket on my sons car i polished it up on my polish wheel and could not get over the results the wire i used turned very rusty so im assumeing i stripped it of what ever they use to make it stainless a little insight to whats going on here would be great ive been thinking of buying the copy chrome kit from caswell i would like to do home chromeing there seems to be alot of risk and dealing with chromium is a epa danger is the home copy chrome safer to use and does it have the same epa issues as chromium thanks for any response you may have for me

[CarWiz]

i'm not sure how many questions are in that sentence but the lack of punctuation makes it hard to read and understand what you are asking a clear understanding of how electroplating works will go a long way in explaining the "miracles" you are seeing i suggest you read some of the material available on the web it describes the process and many sites show the process graphically as far as using a stainless steel anode the chrome in ss can be drawn out if the current is high enough thats probably what you saw if im not mistaken the caswell copy chrome kit is basically nickel with the addition of cobalt to get the blue color of chrome so theres no problem with epa in regards to chrome the usual precautions are in order when dealing with chemicals that can burn or blind you so make sure you know what you are using

Ken

[woodjames]

Double what Ken said and you may want to invest in the Caswell plating manual it'll help to clarify some things for you

Jimmy

[bobby7821]

thank you for your responses to my post and sorry for the puncuation and spelling dont do a lot of wrighting (like none at all) But back to the plating i reaserched a bit on this caswel site and thats how i got to the point that im at now. i love that i can plate my own parts i do many projects i could apply this to