When you pickle metal, you are cleaning off all the 'yuck', skin oil, extra flux, oxide from heating, etc. To pickle I have heard folks use Muratic acid or Sparex. I've never used Muratic acid, but I got a can of Sparex years ago from Sulphur Springs, and it works great. Others will be able to speak more to this thread... Right Harry? :-)
Terry Griner -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David B. Orwig Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SSLiveSteam] Pickling I got a chance to do a little silver soldering yesterday. I built an elbow out of 1/8 inch copper tubing. I actually got the solder to flow and created a leak free connection. I'm starting of small but hope to one day turn a piece of two inch copper pipe I have sitting on my shelf in to something a little more useful. I've heard in the past of people pickling their boilers after the completion of assembly. What is that? (I know what it means in regards to cucumbers.) What different type fluids are used in the process? Should I do it to anything I hard solder (like my copper elbow, of which I am very proud of! (grin))? Dave Orwig Virginia Beach -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20061220/1a598 2ef/attachment.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
