Re: Jo block preservitive


"Ignoramus8643" <ignoramus8643@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-12-31, Ed Huntress <huntres23@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Pete Snell" <snell-p@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:02:41 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm,
Ignoramus8643 <ignoramus8643@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> quickly quoth:

On 2007-12-31, Tom Gardner <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I send mine out and had them chrome plated! They won't rust now!
I just wirebrush them when they get rusty.

24 grit disks take mine down to shiny again.


Haven't you guys heard of electrolytic derusting?

Five minutes in hydrochloric or nitric acid every couple of weeks will
keep
that nasty rust away, with no elbow grease at all. However, elbow grease
applied after they're clean will extend the time between de-rustings. Get
the elbow grease that's free of detergents. d8-)




I tried to keep my gage blocks in hydrochloric acid permanently to prevent
rust.

Unfortunately, when I checked them after a week, apparently someone
stole them.

That sounds just like what happened to me when I was a kid and wanted to
clean the dirt and dead-critter stuff off of my seashell collection.
Somebody told me to put them in vinegar for a few minutes. But they weren't
clean after that, so I left them in overnight.

The next morning, they were gone.

--
Ed Huntress

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