Re: Electolytic Rust Removal

Posted by Keegan Chaput On 2008/2/29 22:54:46

From my understanding and what I've read, as long as the current is still flowing you can leave the part in there forever. Your scrap steel will eventually corrode away, but if you use something fairly thick it will take quite a long time.

As far as water jackets goes... it's my understanding that it's most effective as "line of sight" from the part to the anode (scrap steel). That doesn't mean that it wouldn't work, maybe just a really long time.

I've never tried anything that had any plating on it. I would be careful with chrome or anything that is plated. Personally, I'd try something that I didn't care about first and then decide to try my unreplaceable part. Maybe someone who understands the science of electrolysis and plating can chime in. I'm just a cave man mimicking the movements of more evolved beings.