Re: electrolytic derusting


"Mark Dunning" <markshere2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been using rebar in my tank. Works pretty swell......

I grabbed a chunk of stainless steel, but then learned that it creates a
toxic mess in the washing soda solution.

What are the implications of using lead as the positive ..Cathode?
Electrode? vis a vis putting toxic nasties into the solution?

Anyone?

Mark

15 years ago, I got some stainless steel expanded *** metal at a scrap
yard. It was very very fine stuff. the long dimension of the holes was about
a 1/16". It looked like fine mesh until you got close. About 26ga thick

I used it to make a few lamps and, on a whim, I used some of the falloff in
my derusting bucket.

I have been using the same piece ever since. It has not decayed in the least
and surface is still bright. I do not know what alloy it is, but it is
fairly magnetic.

Don't be so quick to dismiss stainless. Some alloys work great. I just don't
know which alloys they are.

Paul K. Dickman


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