[A_Steingrube] has posted a guide to his favorite method of copper electroplating. Plating copper onto other metals is popular with the steampunk crowd, but it does have other uses. Copper plate ...

you can see copper plating of a nail at around the 12 minute mark, with a plastic plating demo a minute later. The machine can even plate gold using an expensive gold-bearing electrolyte.

Electroplating is a technique that uses an electrical current to deposit a thin layer of metal onto a surface ... materials with metals such as gold, silver, copper, nickel, tin, or zinc ...

Sticking through the asphalt is an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder. When filled with vinegar - orany other ... Scientists believe the batteries (if that is their correct function) were used ...