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Electroforming Tutorial for beginners with Advanced Equipment | part 2

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  Let's see what happened in the part 1 of this tutorial: I have electroformed maple leaves that are organics. By analyzing them now, we can notice two issues.  There are straight lines of copper formation, this means that the copper ions flow, goes just in one direction. To solve this problem, we add to our equipment a magnetic stirrer. It will move all the ions in the solution and break the flow, so that the copper adhesion will be homogeneous.  And, we have a second issue: roughness. This problem comes for three reasons: the electroforming solution is raw with no additives. Anodes could have release particles that got attracted to our leaf, creating this rough effect. And it also could be an operator's fault. Maybe I left it running for too long. We are going to add a brightener and/or a smoother in the solution. An anode bag on our electrodes to filter all the detaching parts and, to be sure we don't leave our bath going on its own for too long, we add a timer. With ...