It's not copper plating, it's just removal of the chrome on the brass bits.
SmokTech The Natural - New mechanical device
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It's not copper plating, it's just removal of the chrome on the brass bits.
Ah.. I misunderstood then. I thought the natural was all stainless. Removing the chrome should still decrease the resistance a bit though ya?
Yes. Brass conducts better than chrome. The body is all stainless, most of the internal bits are chrome plated brass.
That is an interesting looking APV... I love SmokTech products, I have a VMAX ver 2 and a Groove. This might be another addition to my collection
So Meat, I've had my parts bubbling away for hours now at 1.5ish amps.... no sign of the chrome leaving them...
I sanded away the Chrome plating and it made a 3 watt difference with a 1.0 ohm coil...it is the same difference meatsneakers got originally. I don't know if he got an improvement with removing the rest of the plating through reverse electroplating.
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Curious, what cathode and electrolyte are you using? It was seriously like 3 seconds with HCI, 12v, 1 amp and a piece of copper. Try upping the amperage as I used a tiny container - a shot glass.
Meat. That was a great idea. I have used electrolysis to clean rust off car parts when I rebuilt my 73 firebird. My solution was safe though, washing soda in water LOL easy smeasy. Ill have to look into the plating side of it one of these days 
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I used some nice clean copper I had as the sacrificial anode, and I was using a water/sodium carbonate as the electrolyte (baked down from sodium bicarbonate) mixed 1gal/1tbsp (I also tried 1gal/2ish tbsp, didn't seem to make a difference). I was running a spare (near new) 12v motorcycle battery, also hooked to a 1.5 amp wall charger (to save the battery). I had it in a 1ish gallon plastic container.
I tried moving the mod parts closer to the anode
I tried upping the sodium carbonate/water ratio
I tried making better connections between the parts and the cathode
Lots of bubbles, no chrome removal. I don't expect you to share it here, but if you could PM me a bit more about your setup, I would very much appreciate it.
I ended up giving up for today, removing my parts, cleaning them well, and just lightly sanding the connection points. It's hitting a bit harder than before, but now it's irritating me that I couldn't get the electrolysis process right...
Also as a side note, besides finding a wrench to get on the inside nut of the switch (I just happened to have one) I found complete disassembly/reassembly to be very simple. Guys, take your time if you're planning to disassemble, remember where the parts go, and it's easy peasy. Disassembly took me about 3 minutes, and reassembly took me about 5.
Not threading at all.. But only Genesis NV that won't thread.. all my other attys do not have this problem..
But it thread no problem in Vamo and Lavatube
3 Watts? isn't that almost a full 1 volt increase? Hard to conceive the mod was restricting almost 1/4 available power. Was there some kind of non-metallic coating on it?
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