Quote Originally Posted by paco664 View Post
you can probably find a inexpensive plating kit..... i remember a friend had one to do gold plating... he would put some *(allegedly gold containing) liquid on the metal to be plated and then connect electrodes just a touch of sizzle sound and it turned gold colored.....
To truly PLATE copper you need to use some nasty chemicals. Either an arsenic-copper chelate, or a copper pyrophosphate compound, neither of which I really want to mess with in an apartment. Not because I'm scared of them or don't know how to work with them, but what if I spilled it on something? Goodbye deposit!