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Electrolysis Pool (No Running!)

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Ed S. (IL)

04-14-2006 20:25:07

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Here's the pool:

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I filled it up with water plus one box of Arm & Hammer SUPER Washing Soda. The sacrificial electrode is a piece of rebar I bent into the same shape as the "tiny scrubbing bubbles" floating around my hood. This arrangement is pulling enough current from the 10amp battery charger to move the needle about halfway.

I'm going to take a deep breath and pull the hood out tomorrow (about 36 hours in the tank) and see what it looks like. I've got the phosphoric ready to spritz on as soon as it comes out to stop flash rusting...

And Dawn, just to make you feel a tiny bit better about your current state with Arthur, here's my 8N:

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I gots lots of grindin' to do... If I had kept at it last year when I got all the paint off it, I wouldn't have to do it again, now would I?

;o)

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Vern-MI

04-15-2006 09:21:00

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to Ed S. (IL), 04-14-2006 20:25:07

Looks like it is cleaning the re-bar real good. Don't know about the hood though.

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Russ SoCal

04-15-2006 08:04:30

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Good, but..... in reply to Ed S. (IL), 04-14-2006 20:25:07

..... it needs a rubber ducky.
R ;o)

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hvw

04-15-2006 05:24:58

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to Ed S. (IL), 04-14-2006 20:25:07

Now that's cookin' tin Ed. Looks like it's going to work great.

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FarmerDawn

04-15-2006 03:34:20

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to Ed S. (IL), 04-14-2006 20:25:07

Oh my GOSH! LOL Boy, you are going to really have your tractor SPRUCE by the time you're done! And of course you are giving me just all KINDS of ideas about Arthur. :-)

Of course, I have a question that's highly dumb, which is: how on earth did you bend the rebar like that, to fit in the pool? Seriously.

I can't WAIT to see what the hood looks like when it comes out!

Dawn (p.s. I love the "no running" part! LOL)

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Ed S. (IL)

04-15-2006 05:10:35

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to FarmerDawn, 04-15-2006 03:34:20

I used the patented Mark VII Flabtrolic Press to bend the rebar (stepped on it and pulled hard). Rebar is mild metal and bends pretty easily... I bent it every two feet or so at an angle of about 45 degrees, and that seemed to work well for the size pool I bought.

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FarmerDawn

04-15-2006 07:17:54

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to Ed S. (IL), 04-15-2006 05:10:35

OK, this is bad -- until I got to your parentheses I was all ready to find out more about these incredible machines that can bend rebar! LOL

I had no idea it could be bent that (relatively) easily, in all honesty; it looks like such formidable stuff!

It's a great idea for a sacrifice metal, because you can fit it into the pool like that. Very cool!

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Ben in KS

04-14-2006 20:49:54

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to Ed S. (IL), 04-14-2006 20:25:07

That is a great idea, using the pool. Very simple, and cost efficient. Electrolysis is the greatest thing since sliced bread for tractor/implement restoration. Have fun....Ben

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herb storrs

04-15-2006 06:24:22

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to Ben in KS, 04-14-2006 20:49:54

How much rebar did you use?

My experience has been that having too small anodes is the major bottleneck in most rigs. I bolted together a couple of old brake disks and dropped them in my tank for an anode, and the current jumped up from 2amps to 6, which is all the charger was good for. I think somewhere it says that ideally the area of the anode should be the same as the area of the piece being cleaning.

The other thing I found, though, is that cheap steel like rebar seems to work better than higher grade - replaced a piece of steel rod with some rebar of the same size and the current trebled.

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ed S. (IL)

04-15-2006 09:59:58

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Re: Electrolysis Pool (No Running!) in reply to herb storrs, 04-15-2006 06:24:22

Herb,

The piece I used was about 8' long. In my original setup (the one that got destroyed by the storm last week), I had a piece of tubing about 4' long, and it barely moved the needle - this one has the needle about halfway up (10 amp charger).

Gonna go take it out of the tank after I grab a quick bite to eat. More photos coming soon...

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