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Shuffle Your iPod’s Look

Posted 01/10/2008 at 11:19:59am | by Zack Stern

Be sure to cover the exposed metal completely with a cloth

Step 6: Prepare the wand
Wrap and tie a small strip of cotton cloth around the exposed metal end of the plating wand. (You’ll use different wands for different kinds of plating. For example, gold uses a stainless steel wand, while copper uses a copper wand.) The strip should be about six inches long. Make it snug, but if it’s too tight, it won’t soak the plating solutions as well.

Don't mix up your chemicals

Step 7: Prepare the chemicals
Open your plating bottle (or bottles), and fill the cap with the solution. Soak the clean, un-used wand in the full bottle initially. But once you begin plating, don’t dip back in the source; you could contaminated the remainder.

Use a transformer. A direct connection to an outlet will kill you

Step 8: Hook up the iPod
Plug the transformer into the wall, and hook up its ends. Connect the negative alligator clip to the iPod backing, and insert the positive end in the wand. The transformer voltage also varies with the kind of plating; use 4.5 volts for copper or gold.

Rub on alchemy

Step 9: Plate it
Rub the wand with firm, but not excessive pressure on the iPod. Use small circular strokes, but keep it moving so the iPod doesn’t get burned. Test a patch on the inside of the metal plate to practice, if desired. Soak up more of the solution about every 45 seconds. Replace the cotton strip if it becomes dark and tarnished. Metals like copper can be plated easily without any base coat. For best gold results, we recommend plating a layer of copper, then a layer of nickel before plating gold. The gold might not effectively plate directly to the iPod.

Back together and working

Step 10: Put it back together
Clean off any solution on the iPod backing, and reassemble the parts. Reattach the headphone piece, reconnect the ribbon cable, and snap the two halves together.

Our copper iPod

Eventually, we'll get a nice green patina effect

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So much better than the silly iPod article in the February issue
Submitted by Frank (not verified) on Thu, 2008-01-10 12:05

This is so much cooler than the silly iPod article in the February issue where they turned an iPod into a planter for a tiny tree or a coin holder. That was soooooo lame.

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Thanks, Frank!
Submitted by Susie Ochs on Thu, 2008-01-10 13:58

We wanted to include this with that, but couldn't for space reasons. Plus, the chemicals had to be shipped over Ground and so we wouldn't have gotten them in time for the deadline. We put a teaser in that article so people would know to look out for this MacLife.com exclusive.

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I really liked the ipod
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2008-02-09 11:16

I really liked the ipod plater idea and I plan on trying it with my own ipod when it dies.

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They all laughed at
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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus, when he said the world ain't flat, they all laghed when Edison recorded sound...
The all laughed at Apple and their shuffle, when they said you need no screen..

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