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266853 Mick Dowling <spacelysprocket@b...> 2018‑10‑22 Re: Electrolysis on a Smaller Scale
GGs

Here's the go to article about electrolytic rust removal on the HTPAA
website. http://www.htpaa.org.au/article-electro.php

I've tried baking soda, but I reckon washing soda works a lot quicker.

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.


On 22/10/18, 7:49 pm, "scott grandstaff"  wrote:

> You are first going to have to check if your power supply is really 
putting
> out
  Sounds like maybe you got no apms
Check fuse?
Some of them have fuses
> and sometimes they're hidden?

If the cables spark hard and hot........
(oh
> alright, so kill me, brush them together a second and check you got 
spark Its
> not going to hairlip the governor. its 12 volts)

If you do have hot spark


>  Either your cable is broken or the clip is not getting good contact
or your
> soup is incorrect.
About 1/2 cup in 5 gallons of washing or baking soda
You
> should be able to see through it and you need to see a fine stream 
of tiny
> but steady bubbles rising, or you are going nowhere
  yours Scott

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