Heres my Backyard Bozo contribution to tech week. De-rusting by electrolysis has been covered lots of times here. Im a big fan of the process but seem to use other methods often just because its sometimes a h***le to set up, find everything, etc. So I decided to make something for small to medium parts that would be easier for me to use, store and keep track of. Looking around the shop, I found some s**** ½ thick plastic, eyelets and a 32 gallon plastic trash container. Hopefully the pictures will be self explanatory. I basically cut the plastic to fit together in a cross, drilled for the eyelets and connected the work eyelets with s**** br*** plate from a door kick plate (I never throw anything away). I connected the strips to a terminal bolt. I then connected the negative eyelets with electrical wire also hooked to a terminal bolt. The plastic is easily drilled, I made use of this to run wires and strain relief them. This resulted in a self contained ***embly that fit to the top of the trash container. Once the jumpers from my trusty Sears battery charger were hooked up to the terminal bolts, I had a group of negatively charged eyelets for the work pieces and a group of positively charged for the oxide. Here again, done cheap and fast with what I had handy, but it works.
secret juice is a couple of teas****s of Arm & Hammer washing soda mixed with tap water/ google: "electrolytic rust removal" jim
I'd be doing this but I can't find washing soda around here! Theres everything else on the shelves but that...and I've been to the grocery stores, Canadian tire...Home Hardware...you name it! Is there anything else you can use???
I'm not sure, all it does is make the water an electrolitic solution, conducts better. My brother says he's used conventional laundry detergent and it worked. I can't personally vouch for that.
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