In the recent times efforts have been made to combine plastic and metal, and to bring forth a product that has the goodness of both. With metallization the plastic gains the properties like thermal conductivity, strength and hardness. Methods discovered are usually costly, complex and environment unfriendly. Metallization of plastics has opened the door for its use in various fields such as electronic industry, textile industry and automotive industry. Metallic coating are also desirable in providing finish on the items like cell phones and laptop cases. The electric arc spray approach has been used to deposit copper on the acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS). This work makes an extensive study to analyze the factors that are significantly affecting the wear nature of the deposited coating and to obtain an optimal combination of process parameters that results in a coating which adherant enough and has the lowest wear rate.