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Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda

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Obie

02-21-2001 15:47:59




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Has anyone ever heard of this way to clean rust off parts or tools? Take a plastic tub and fill with water for each gal. of water add one tble. spoon of Baking Soda. Then at one end of the tub insert a plate of stainless steel and hook the wire from a 12 volt bat. charger.NEG lead to S.S. plate and at the other end of the tub insert the rusty TOOL or ITEM you want to get clean and hook the POS.lead to the item and with 12 VDC going thru this solution for about 12 or 16 hours and the rusty item will come out looking like NEW. I want to try it and see if it works> Tonight at a auction one of my pals said he uses this method to clean his rusty tools. WAS he pulling my leg???
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Larry(SD)

02-22-2001 21:06:43




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 Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Obie, 02-21-2001 15:47:59  
Check the following link:

www.intricatearticles.com/personal/rustfaq.html



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Jerry B

02-22-2001 11:28:43




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 Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Obie, 02-21-2001 15:47:59  
Link

try this link...I think this works.



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Franz

02-21-2001 19:51:25




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 Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Obie, 02-21-2001 15:47:59  
Lets get the idea right. First, Washing soda works a lot better than baking soda. It's found in the laundry detergent section of the grocery store.
Second, mix 1 tablespoon per gallon of water in a plastic container.
Third, Use an electrode,[anode], stainless, copper, or even an old car spring leaf, bigger the surphace area the better.
Fourth, clean as much grease and crap off the object to be derusted as you can.
Fifth, Connect the + side of the battery charger to the anode, and put it in one end of your tank. Secure the anode so it will not short to the object you're derusting.
Sixth, Connect the object you wish to derust to the - side of the battery charger and immerse it in the solution. Bubbles will rise from the object to be derusted if you have good electrical connection.
Seventh, wash off the object after it has derusted with dish detergent and water. A small brass or stainless toothbrush is handy. Objects having multiple parts may require jumper wires to completely derust.
IF YOU DON'T GET THE POLARITY RIGHT, THE PROCESS WILL DEVOUR THE OBJECT YOU'RE TRYING TO DERUST.
WARNING; THIS PROCESS CREATES HYDROGEN GAS. DO NOT DO IT INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, OR AROUND IGNITION SOURCES.

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Ray,IN

02-21-2001 17:38:44




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 Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Obie, 02-21-2001 15:47:59  
DC current flows neg. to pos. I don't see how it will work. Looks like it will cause deposits onto the part. I spent years working around a plating room, and the dip tank connections were neg. to deposit silver onto the part. They reversed the cables to remove the plating if needed.



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Htr

02-21-2001 16:56:36




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 Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Obie, 02-21-2001 15:47:59  
This site will explain how to do it, if you can get it to come up. The page freezes when I try to link.

http://www.oldengine.org/members/billd/electro.htm



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Richard

02-21-2001 16:25:54




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 Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Obie, 02-21-2001 15:47:59  
We did something very simular when I was a kid. Although we used table salt and it turned everything pretty black, almost like anoidized.

Aluminum motor cycle parts came out looking great. We used a different source of power, but I'm not going to say because people will yell at me!

Speaking of the electicity and water, I took a 5 gallon water bottle, dumped a quart of table salt in it, mixed with water, put a trash bag over it, then hooked it to 24 volts. I was about 13 and was going to make a floating balloon. Boy did I screw up, I captured both gases (o2 and H) in my trash bag, and it mad a pretty loud bang and burned half the hair off my head.

Moral to this stupid story, electrolysis? of water creates 2 gases, oxygen, and hydrogen, and they are very explosive when ignited!

Be careful!

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Taylor Lambert

02-21-2001 18:45:35




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 Re: Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Richard, 02-21-2001 16:25:54  
I d like to know what you cleaned, Im And the power source and the solution. I traded for 75 assorted motor bike wheels covers gas caps and parts gets tiring at the buffing wheel trying to get all the rust off. they sat in a metal bin that had rusted only has a light coating from the bolts. I wont yell either i mowed down a tree at the end of my garden last night with my Beer can cannon lol.



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glenshoe

02-22-2001 04:47:11




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 Re: Re: Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to Taylor Lambert, 02-21-2001 18:45:35  
Hey, I know it's off the subject, but I'd really like to get the design of your beer can cannon. It would be a perfect entertainment item for our big campout/party in the country this summer.



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be careful

02-22-2001 08:48:56




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Clean Parts With 12V.D.C. Baking Soda in reply to glenshoe, 02-22-2001 04:47:11  
sorry for off subject, but... 6"dia round stock 12" long. drill 1" dia to a depth of about 10 1/2". bored about 0.010 larger than drink can, 8" deep. turn hemi-sperical at rear for looks. fuse hole drilled to intersect powder pocket. 2"dia trunion pieces welded at midpoint. mounted in a hardwood carriage. looks like a war-between the-states mortar. small black powder charges (3/4 dia copper tubing dipper 1" long) cans filled with dry sand, range about 250 yds. concrete filled cans further. lots of noise lots of fun, very, very dangerous.

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