Record vice’s

[CharBennett]

What about Electrolysis using citric acid. Boom or bust

 

[Turbo]

What about Electrolysis using citric acid. Boom or bust

I think you need to use washing soda or caustic soda for electrolysis for the process to work properly.

 

[CharBennett]

Think I will try citric acid as I’ve been advised from members on here. Don’t know anything about Electrolysis so not worried about it. Although I have plenty of old car battery chargers I don’t think I would like to leave all that on for 24 hours.

I think you need to use washing soda or caustic soda for electrolysis for the process to work properly.

 

[harveyp6]

I may have this wrong, but ISTR electrolysis gives of hydrogen as well, which can make quite a big bang.

 

[CharBennett]

Bloody good job I’m going citric acid route then. I know nothing about Electrolysis and a bit worried about it. Thanks for the heads up

I may have this wrong, but ISTR electrolysis gives of hydrogen as well, which can make quite a big bang.

 

[Onoff]

You could use molasses. Seriously.

Thread 'Rust Removal, Molasses.'

Jun 19, 2016

A farmer near me had a blue drum with molasses and water in, he chuck rusty stuff in it to clean the rust off, I never took a lot of notice as I had a tank of phosphoric acid, he said he left the parts in a few
weeks and they came out rust free. I don't have my a tank of phosphoric acid any more, well I do but it's
so dilute it takes months to clean things. So when I had a pile of really rusty scaffold clamps to clean I
thought I would give molasses and water a try.

I got a can of molasses, from the horse feed place up the road, and chucked a few liters of molasses in
to 10 litres...

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[CharBennett]

Out of those 3 I'd keep the 112p.

Should be an all steel vice and very hard to break.

Are they not all cast? It is strange how the112p is so much heavier.

You could use molasses. Seriously.

Thread 'Rust Removal, Molasses.'

Jun 19, 2016

A farmer near me had a blue drum with molasses and water in, he chuck rusty stuff in it to clean the rust off, I never took a lot of notice as I had a tank of phosphoric acid, he said he left the parts in a few
weeks and they came out rust free. I don't have my a tank of phosphoric acid any more, well I do but it's
so dilute it takes months to clean things. So when I had a pile of really rusty scaffold clamps to clean I
thought I would give molasses and water a try.

I got a can of molasses, from the horse feed place up the road, and chucked a few liters of molasses in
to 10 litres...

• graffian
• Replies: 34
• forum: The Brew Room

what the heck is molasses?

 

[Morris]

It's a by-product of sugar production. Also known as black treacle. In the States people dunk whole rusted up engines in a barrel of molasses, leave for a few weeks and take out a rust free engine. It works well but slowly and stinks apparently.

 

[CharBennett]

Sugar? Weird. Well I don’t have any of it so unlikely I would be able to try it. Good idea though.

 

[Agroshield]

I think you need to use washing soda or caustic soda for electrolysis...

The chemical is not so important. All it does is make normally non-conductive water conduct electricity.

In chemistry class at school, we did electrolysis of water, but you have to dope it with a few drops of sulphuric acid to get it to conduct. The apparatus has two tubes, one above the anode and one above the cathode. You are shown how the volume of gas at one is double the volume at the other, and that one gas is hydrogen (light it) and the other oxygen (relights a glowing splint).

 

[CharBennett]

Mind blown.

 

[MattF]

The chemical is not so important.

It is. As are the anodes compositions. We merely don't overly worry on the latter front because wecre not dealing with rarities, in most cases.

I do have an indepth pdf article, somewhere. If I can dig it out, I'll post it up on here.

 

[MattF]

This is the pdf. The electrolysis sections are towards the end of the file.

 

[Turbo]

This is the pdf. The electrolysis sections are towards the end of the file.

A bit of light reading there.

 

[CharBennett]

Way over my head chaps.