Re: [MBZ] W123 battery tray getting derusted

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:45:08 -0400 Dwight Giles via Mercedes wrote: > Except you can buy vinegar with 30% acetic acid on Amazon. I use it for > weed killer mixed with salt. I used the 30% acetic acid in grad school for cleaning out a YAG laser's cooling system. Strong stuff! Craig

Re: [MBZ] W123 battery tray getting derusted

Molasses also works very well as a stripper/derusting agent. Takes a bit of time though. https://youtu.be/mzoQj91glP4 https://youtu.be/h7EOw5Thuo0 https://www.christinedemerchant.com/molasses-rust-removal.html Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search

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Not in itself but your ability to mix to the strength you want is a big advantage in vinegar. Got something heavily rusted? Add a bunch of crystals. Something delicate? Use fewer. Its cheaper (5# for $20 delivered from Amazon has lasted me 8 years.) and doesn't smell as strongly. Mixed strong

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Except you can buy vinegar with 30% acetic acid on Amazon. I use it for weed killer mixed with salt. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:39 PM OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > You can easily make it stronger, whereas vinegar can only easily be made > weaker. > > On Tue, Jun

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You can easily make it stronger, whereas vinegar can only easily be made weaker. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 7:09 AM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Is citric acid more effective than vinegar? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 23, 2020, at 7:55 AM, Curt Raymond

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True, just harder to source on the fly. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:08:54 -0400 Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes > wrote: > >> Is citric acid more effective than vinegar? > > I can't say if it is, but with a supply

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On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:08:54 -0400 Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: > Is citric acid more effective than vinegar? I can't say if it is, but with a supply you will also be able to clean out your cooling system ... Craig > > On Jun 23, 2020, at 7:55 AM, Curt Raymond > > wrote: > > > >

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Is citric acid more effective than vinegar? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2020, at 7:55 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: > >  > For something that size an overnight soak in citric acid will do a really > good job, scrape it with a wire brush ever couple hours for maximum rust > removal. > Once

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For something that size an overnight soak in citric acid will do a really good job, scrape it with a wire brush ever couple hours for maximum rust removal.Once the rust is gone a couple hours of naval jelly adds the phosphor that helps key the paint. You could use evaporust (or other similar)

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:32:50 -0400 Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: > I need to learn how to do that. Ask Jim if you need him to clarify the instruction below. IIRC, he used washing (not baking!) soda, a child's pool, water, an old-fashioned battery charger, a piece of scrap iron as a

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Yeah that does work like magic. Just be sure you get the positve and negative connected the right way, if you aren't sure about the chemistry or what "anode" means. Postive goes to the sacrificial iron, and negative goes to the part you want to de-rust. A good (old) web page about it:

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I need to learn how to do that. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2020, at 10:28 PM, Jim Cathey wrote: > > For something like that where you can tank it, using a battery charger and a > bit > of scrap iron to electrically convert the rust back to iron is cheap, easy, > and highly effective!

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Before: http://formicapeak.com/~jimc/genset/genhead.jpg After: http://formicapeak.com/~jimc/genset/genhead2.jpg No wire-brushing was used at all. It went in looking like the first picture, and came out looking like the second. The

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For something like that where you can tank it, using a battery charger and a bit of scrap iron to electrically convert the rust back to iron is cheap, easy, and highly effective! Plastic tank, water, a bit of electrolyte (any acid, or base, or salt) plus sacrificial anode and the battery charger

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Looks like you are getting it. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 10:10 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Ground away rust. Here after roughly 24 hours and multiple naval jelly > applications. Will let it sit another night with the naval jelly.