Kind of like finally having to vote for the Democrats Jeff, yep I’m afraid I’m going to have to switch sides. I talked with the formulator and really didn’t get much satisfaction or information from him on this bath so I think it’s just a scam.
I don’t intend on dipping a fender or anything that big. When I get to that size I think I’ll leave it up to some one with the proper equipment. I just want a ten or fifteen gallon dip.
I haven’t been able to put my finger on exactly what’s bugging me about the electrolysis but I think one of the things is all the pictures I’ve seen look like all your doing is converting the rust to a “black something”. Then you have to physically try to remove the black something by wire brushing, sanding, sandblasting or just painting over it. Navel Jelly will do that.
Truckernix, up in Canada posted some pictures a while back of his doors. He had a commercial chemical stripper do them and they look like brand new metal, no paint, no rust and no “black something”, just plane old clean metal. That’s what I have in mind.
The d-Rust-It that I was using left a very thin black smut or soot when you took it out of the bath, but a light scrubbing with detergent in the laundry tub produced a clean metal surface, it did remove the rusted metal completely. The only problem is it only lasted for a few parts before it crapped out on me and cost a bunch.
Alan, from the buffed appearance of the few parts that I saw in your album it looks like you’ve wire brushed them after you stripped them. I have dial up so I can’t look at all the pics or I’d be there all day so maybe I’m missing something?
And Scott, I gotta hand it to ya, that’s one big dip tank ya got there. I really get the creeps about using acid and especially about storing a large tub of it in the shop for occasional use. If your Mylar plastic tub springs a leak you gonna’ have one hell of a mess to try and clean up. And as I said before, on these parts I really didn’t want to strip the plating off, 90% of it is intact, there is only rust on the outside top of the case.
Ya see, in my mind each one of these methods has it’s bad side to it. The d-Rust-It was the least toxic and easiest to use if only it didn’t cost so much and also if it lasted longer.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
