Graphite Conductive Paint - 4 fl oz

I attempted to use this product as a base layer to electroplate some plastic parts. The paint had a grainy, paste-like texture, and didn't self level well. I coated my part in the paint, and once the paint was dry, attempted to electroplate using Caswell's flash copper plug-n-plate. No luck with plating. I tried Caswell's nickel plate solution, still no luck. I tried messing with my electrodes, again no luck. Lightly sanding the paint - yet again no luck. I then put an ohmmeter on the surface, and pegged the max resistance of the meter. Ok, so I'm not getting surface conductivity. I mixed the paint up real good, put down a coating, let it dry, lightly sanded, and put a second coating on. managed to get a conductivity in the high 10K Ohm range over about an inch of length. I also had some copper conductive paint (actually, a Permatex repair paint for automotive rear window defrosters) that had around 10 ohms of surface resistance I laid down on another sample, just to compare. The graphite wouldn't brush plate, but the copper paint did. Immersion plating worked extremely well for the copper paint after just a couple of minutes, but after hours of immersion, the graphite paint only showed the slightest whisp of copper plating, and only in the immediate vicinity of the negative electrode. So I don't know if I simply got a bad batch of paint, or if this is indicative of the product, but its pretty clear it was a waste of money. Save yourself the hassle and buy metallic conductive paint.

you need to water this down a lot for it not to be sloppy and chunky but in doing so it loses conductivity