I was trying to remove some surface rust from a rare Lotus wheel I had just acquired and went to get it out of the tank this morning, this is what came out

Any idea what I have doe wrong?

Caber
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Electrodes the wrong way round? As in +/- oposite to what it should be?

[Edited on 1/4/07 by bilbo]

second that.

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Originally posted by bilbo


Electrodes the wrong way round?

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Originally posted by caber
I was trying to remove some surface rust from a rare Lotus wheel I had just acquired and went to get it out of the tank this morning, this is what came out

Any idea what I have doe wrong?

Caber

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It shouldn't be too much of a problem, Just swap the wires round make sure you have a big enough electrode and it will rebuild it for you I'm sure

[Edited on 1/4/07 by ReMan]

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Originally posted by caber
I was trying to remove some surface rust from a rare Lotus wheel I had just acquired and went to get it out of the tank this morning, this is what came out

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that will soon polish out

Id say someone swapped it during the night for one they found in a canal somewhere.

Looks like there may be more ferrous oxide there than steel!

on the plus side, its even more rare now...

edit: lol, just read again, I didn't realise i just siad what someone esles did, pretty much word for word

[Edited on 1/4/07 by blakep82]

A bit over restored I say, far better than when it left the factory!

nothing to do with april 1st is it?

haha, good call rotax. I think you may be on to something

could an alternating current do that? It seems to have removed good metal. Unless its not steel.

I put it in the tank just after midnight

Caber

38 years ago today

Ok folks it WAS a wind up, I rescued the wheel off a beach a couple of years ago

Caber

and you kept it for a couple of years?!

You should see the other beach junk I have! It all looks pretty nice in the hall, I have something that looks like Fred Flintstone's guitar, a pair of dumbells with rebar and almost spherical concrete on each end and a thing like an axe with a wooden blade and metal shaft. Most of this came off a beach in Fife where they bulldozed an entire mine into the sea! lots of really nice stuff until the "cleaned it up" removing everything that looked like it started out man made, a real shame IMHO

Caber