How To Clean Cast Iron Using Electrolysis
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How to clean cast iron using electrolysis. Set your charger to a manual 12 volt setting. How to clean rusty cast iron with electrolysis using a generator. Oven cleaner lye electrolysis. Clamp the positive clamp to the sacrificial metal. If you put something between the piece and the metal a shadow of crud will be left on the piece where the object blocked the flow of current from the piece.
You can also get a transcript of the video. A manual battery charger typically a 2 10 40 200 model. The first two options sounded toxic the third potentially explosive. After electrolysis cleaning of iron relics. A short video explaining how electrolysis can save your old cast iron cookware and save you a lot of elbow grease.
After the final electrolysis session is completed switch the power off pull the artifact out of the electrolytic solution and treat the artifact following the steps 1 through 3 on page 25. I have a very rusty old cast iron skillet that i want to clean with electrolysis. What is an electrolysis tank anyway. But we had a problem. You re going to need an electrolyte.
1 rinsing and wire brushing. Rinsing and wire brushing what is black coating and how to clean it off. This is a method using a manual battery charger sacrificial stainless steel and an electrolyte solution that will clean rusty cast iron and steel items. An electrolysis tank uses the following materials. All the online instructions i can find say to use a battery charger to build the electrolysis tank.
Clamp the negative clamp from your battery charger to the piece of cast iron you are cleaning just above the water s surface. I don t have one of those but i have a predator inverter generator. Completely surrounding the cast iron piece to be cleaned with the anode metal is best. Use sodium carbonate at a rate of about a table spoon per gallon of water maybe less.