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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 300800, member: 66&quot;]Nah you can do a good plating job with a glass jar, a few chemicals, and a $5 DC charger.&nbsp; I&#039;m not makin the coin, I&#039;m just electroplating it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes mercury is heavier than copper or zinc.&nbsp; That was figured into the weights I gave.&nbsp; The copper plating weighs .05 grams.&nbsp; Mercury is 28% heavier than copper so a layer of the same thickness would weigh .064 grams or rounded to two places .06 grams&nbsp; So to be sure of exceeding the weight tolerance on the cent the mercury layer would have to be four times thicker than the copper plating is.&nbsp; Or about the thickness of a sheet of paper[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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