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Big Jim

10-12-2004 23:08:18




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My first great experiment with electrolysis is underway. I tend to be a sandblaster kind of guy but I've got some transmission parts that got rusty. Not real good candidates for a blaster so I copied the instructions I found over in the Case section and decided to give it a try. I was thinking it would be complicated and hard. Well, the hardest part so far was finding some lye at the grocery store. Plastic tub from WalMart, lye, water, some sheet metal, a battery charger, and two parts. I set everything up and turned on the charger to 10 amps. Everything took off just fine. A day in the soup and I could see progress on the 2 pieces. Well, I'm none too patient so I added several more parts and cranked my big charger up to the 50 amp setting. Stand back and watch! The big pieces are bubbling furiously and some of the little ones have lost most of their rust in a couple of hours. I should have tried this a long time ago. I can now recover when I find the tools my kids leave out in the yard.

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txblu

10-13-2004 11:44:59




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 Re: Rust and electrolysis in reply to Big Jim, 10-12-2004 23:08:18  
I can't believe you made that comment about your precious children. Ha

When I was a kid, I had a one track mind. Get whatever you need, get whatever it was fixed, and take off (with it), dropping everything else where it is.

Dad didn't have many tools and I didn't get many butt bustings, but I can remember tools left out in the yard (on the Texas coast) were only good for a couple of days and are shot. Dad tried to get me to understand that you don't do that....but I wasn't an honor student. Ha Ha.


Mark

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Big Jim

10-13-2004 20:33:06




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 Re: Rust and electrolysis in reply to txblu, 10-13-2004 11:44:59  
I've got 2 teenagers and your description fits them to a T. Oh yeah, one of them IS an honor student but it doesn't make any difference.



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txblu

10-14-2004 06:48:52




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 Re: Rust and electrolysis in reply to Big Jim, 10-13-2004 20:33:06  
Chuckle Chuckle. Picked up on that did you.

Mark



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