How To Clean Cast Iron Using Electrolysis
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.
How to clean cast iron using electrolysis. After electrolysis cleaning of iron relics. I have a very rusty old cast iron skillet that i want to clean with electrolysis. The idea came from this article chemistry of cast iron seasoning. Clamp the positive clamp to the sacrificial metal. A short video explaining how electrolysis can save your old cast iron cookware and save you a lot of elbow grease.
Set your charger to a manual 12 volt setting. You re going to need an electrolyte. 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. Keith narrowed it down to three options.
You can also get a transcript of the video. The first two options sounded toxic the third potentially explosive. Electrolysis at work on a cast iron skillet electrolysis is largely a line of sight process meaning the side of the piece closest to the sacrificial metal will become cleaner first. How to clean rusty cast iron with electrolysis using a generator. 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. 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. 1 rinsing and wire brushing. What is an electrolysis tank anyway. Use sodium carbonate at a rate of about a table spoon per gallon of water maybe less.
Rinsing and wire brushing what is black coating and how to clean it off. Clamp the negative clamp from your battery charger to the piece of cast iron you are cleaning just above the water s surface. Oven cleaner lye electrolysis. 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.