Electroliytic Rust Removal

[Oilline]

Dont know if this has been covered before but i have just discovered this amazing way to remove rust from components.
Just need soda crystals, a bucket a battery charger and a piece of scrap steel.

Rear hub after sitting in bucket over night. I just wish i had taken a picture beforehand, it was covered in thick scaly rust

Then after a quick blow over in the glass bead blaster

[MattBW]

Used similar process in school to nickel plate copper coins... Back when 2p and 10p were the same size... As you can imagine as kids we spent them

[kevtherev]

Yes thats a method I used when I was electroplating.
Hot hydrocloric acid has the same effect with no power required
and pickling in phosphoric acid neutralises any rust

you can take it a step further...
fill another bucket with warm water, some zinc oxide, soda crystals, better still.. sodium hydroxide or caustic soda... and saccharin
get a thickly galvanised piece of steel

reverse the current and plate the piece in zinc..

[boxer]

I'm on the lookout for a T25 sized bucket.

[Wychall]

Builder's skip?

[Plasticman]

that a herald hiding on the right
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[Oilline]

that a herald hiding on the right
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Well spotted! Yes it's my mates Herald estate, seems to of taken root, wish he would crack on with it as its taking up far too much room

[Ian Hulley]

that a herald hiding on the right
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Well spotted! Yes it's my mates Herald estate, seems to of taken root, wish he would crack on with it as its taking up far too much room

I wouldn't try to practice on that or he could fetch it back in a carrier bag