What my plan was to do was to first spraypaint a piece of steel with paint. Then put it in the solution to see if it reacts or if any copper is placed on the paint(no electricity is applied). Also I'll know if there are any gaps in the paint. Just knowing my chemistry Iron is more reactive than copper. So... Fe + CuSO4 --> FeSO4 + Cu. So basicily the iron will replace the copper and the copper will be left where the iron was. Also, If I see bubbles then I'll know if it was reacting with the Sulfuric acid.

So I painted a rod of gal. steel. I made it so half of it was sticking in the solution and the very top was out in the air not coated by paint. So this made it possible to add electrcity too.

Then I put it in and after about 20 seconds. VERY SMALL bubbles started to forum. This was the first indication that it wasn't going to work. Then I applied some electrcity and the entire plate(all of it, meaning the paint) was coated with little tiny bubbles, more than before. So I know that something was reacting or atleast the paint was conducting electricity. Maybe it wasn't dry enough :-|

So as of now I'm a bit stumped. I figure its possible but we'll see. I'm thinking of using the epoxy spray paint now. I don't know if that will make a difference or not. A big problem with all this is TIME. If it takes 12 hours to get a good dry spray paint then, you can only do 2 "turns" a day! If you have 40 to do. Thats 20 days! Or if your making 120 turns- Thats about 60 days! Or almost 2 months. So Pretty much I'd have to set up a system that did all the coils at once. Hmmm the possiblities.