caber
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 posted on 1/4/07 at 09:19 AM |
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Great Electrolysis Disaster!!!
I was trying to remove some surface rust from a rare Lotus wheel I had just acquired and went to get it out of the tank this morning, this is what
came out
Any idea what I have doe wrong?
Caber
 
Rescued attachment Photo_040107_001.jpg
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bilbo
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:20 AM |
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Electrodes the wrong way round? As in +/- oposite to what it should be?
[Edited on 1/4/07 by bilbo]
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nib1980
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:21 AM |
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second that.
quote:
Originally posted by bilbo
Electrodes the wrong way round?
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minitici
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:29 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by caber
I was trying to remove some surface rust from a rare Lotus wheel I had just acquired and went to get it out of the tank this morning, this is what
came out
Any idea what I have doe wrong?
Caber
Looks like a severe case of plumbum album vermis 
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ReMan
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:29 AM |
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It shouldn't be too much of a problem, Just swap the wires round make sure you have a big enough electrode and it will rebuild it for you
I'm sure
[Edited on 1/4/07 by ReMan]
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gingerprince
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by caber
I was trying to remove some surface rust from a rare Lotus wheel I had just acquired and went to get it out of the tank this morning, this is what
came out
On the plus side it's even rarer now so surely worth more 
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MikeR
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:41 AM |
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that will soon polish out
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Keith Weiland
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:53 AM |
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Id say someone swapped it during the night for one they found in a canal somewhere.
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coozer
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 10:45 AM |
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Looks like there may be more ferrous oxide there than steel!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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blakep82
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 11:54 AM |
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on the plus side, its even more rare now...
edit: lol, just read again, I didn't realise i just siad what someone esles did, pretty much word for word
[Edited on 1/4/07 by blakep82]
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zetec
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 01:33 PM |
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A bit over restored I say, far better than when it left the factory!
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rotax78
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 03:40 PM |
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nothing to do with april 1st is it?
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blueshift
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 04:43 PM |
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haha, good call rotax. I think you may be on to something 
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JoelP
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 06:31 PM |
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could an alternating current do that? It seems to have removed good metal. Unless its not steel.
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caber
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 09:08 PM |
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I put it in the tank just after midnight
Caber
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Peteff
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| posted on 1/4/07 at 10:41 PM |
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I put it in the tank just after midnight
38 years ago today
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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caber
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| posted on 2/4/07 at 08:02 PM |
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Ok folks it WAS a wind up, I rescued the wheel off a beach a couple of years ago
Caber
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blakep82
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| posted on 2/4/07 at 08:36 PM |
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and you kept it for a couple of years?!
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caber
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| posted on 3/4/07 at 06:55 PM |
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You should see the other beach junk I have! It all looks pretty nice in the hall, I have something that looks like Fred Flintstone's guitar, a
pair of dumbells with rebar and almost spherical concrete on each end and a thing like an axe with a wooden blade and metal shaft. Most of this came
off a beach in Fife where they bulldozed an entire mine into the sea! lots of really nice stuff until the "cleaned it up" removing
everything that looked like it started out man made, a real shame IMHO
Caber
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