Ode and All,
   
  I keep forgetting that I am the only one using the HVAC and CAN'T use 
anything but silver for electrodes.  The same seems to hold true for the 
Colloid Master as it switches polarity.  It was the shock that someone would 
put something other than silver in to make CS.
   
  Sorry about that!  [Way behind reading my mail]
   
  Bill Keen

Ode Coyote <odecoy...@alltel.net> wrote:
  Nothing comes off the cathode.
Everything plates 'to' the cathode,
Any conductive material can be used.
The brass will turn silver in just a few minutes.

Ode