It varies, in my experience. That's why I'm personally not fond of using citric for most things. Results aren't always predictable. Electrolysis, on the other hand, I've never been disappointed by.
I was looking at those.
Then I thought, Chinese electrics in water. Nothing to worry about, surely.
It varies, in my experience. That's why I'm personally not fond of using citric for most things. Results aren't always predictable. Electrolysis, on the other hand, I've never been disappointed by.
Bacon with citric acid...I use electrolysis, citric acid, phosphoric acid or even pay for grit blasting. It's a horses for courses thing.
If I'm in a hurry and the victim is a gert lump of cast iron I'll boil the beast in citric acid for an hour, jet wash it and call it good.
If I have large numbers of very thin or otherwise delicate pressings or items with machined surfaces it's electrolysis - even it it takes a few days.
It it's a subframe it's going for blasting.
If it's nuts, bolts, washers, spacers and other bits and bobs that aren't going to be painted it's phosphoric acid, either ambient or heated.
If it's a preliminary to nickel plating then it's an HCl bath.
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other than more bacon.
bacon with vinegar?Don't forget vinegar.
I also think that if the material is pitted from rusting then it will leave you with the impression that the citric acid has 'caused' damage when all it's done is excavated the pockets of rust.
I did check it every couple of minutes . Cleaned it up well with no visible damage .I did have visions of pulling it out to find half of it desolvedThat's a helluva reaction I hope you didn't leave that in there long.
25kg on order for my 50 gallon tank.
Bought the 25kg bulk as it was cheaper per kilo than the smaller quantities so I can replace cheaply. I will try mixing in the same ratio as the Deox-C used previously in the tank to try a comparison.I would guesstimate that at room temperature, 5-10kgs in 50gallon is a saturated solution.