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To much time on my hands. DMFT restore.
Last winter I left my DFMT inside my egg but never closed the bottom vent or put the ceramic top on for some reason. Alcohol may have been involved. Anyway my egg was nice and clean but it also burnt everything off my DFMT which rusted up in not time. A couple of days ago I decided to restore it using electrolytic rust removal.
http://www.wwgoa.com/articles/one-great-tip/removing-rust-with-electrolysis/
Now this is way over kill for this application, the first time I tried this I was restoring an old hand plane and this method causes no damage to the good metal, it only removes the rust without damage to whatever you are restoring. Instead of baking soda I used this, pure sodium carbonate.
Here the rest of the process.
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Very cool! It's like I'm watching Walter White maintain his egg! =D>Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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Cool! Better living through chemistry! I'll have to try that on some of my tools.
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I couldn't get one of the screws out of mine this spring when I decided to clean it up so I just sprayed it with PAM and put it in my hot Egg. Came out fine and dandy.
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smarter than your average bear...eh boo-boo. Learning goes a long ways....nice work
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pretty cool - but how does this process compare to say, using Naval Jelly or some other rust remover?
FWIW, when I did my high-temp burnout, I too noticed that my now "clean" DFMT was rusty - I just took a wire brush & brushed off as much of the rust as I could, and sprayed PAM on it like probe1957 did.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup... Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee -
Hillbilly-Hightech said:pretty cool - but how does this process compare to say, using Naval Jelly or some other rust remover?
FWIW, when I did my high-temp burnout, I too noticed that my now "clean" DFMT was rusty - I just took a wire brush & brushed off as much of the rust as I could, and sprayed PAM on it like probe1957 did.
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nolaegghead said:Hillbilly-Hightech said:pretty cool - but how does this process compare to say, using Naval Jelly or some other rust remover?
FWIW, when I did my high-temp burnout, I too noticed that my now "clean" DFMT was rusty - I just took a wire brush & brushed off as much of the rust as I could, and sprayed PAM on it like probe1957 did.
Or at least that's what I think I recall. I've never tried the method, and my memory of the process & the setup might be fuzzy from it being so long ago as I was just a kid at the time - but I know that the old timers had all kinds of nifty ways of doing things, and that was just one of them. Oh what great men they were - that's why they were the "Greatest Generation"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup... Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee -
Hillbilly, good memory. It seems potatoes are natural chelating agents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYgnHDB3VNI
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I wonder if it's a smiilar property that lends itself to the potato clock.Bx - > NJ ->TX!!!All to get cheaper brisket!
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hahahahaa... I bought an old used Shopsmith off of Craigslist awhile back & that's what I used to make my table!! Those things are built like tanks!! ^:)^
That's how I knew about the Naval Jelly cuz the Shopsmith had some rust on it & I went to the hardware store & looked around & bought some of it to get rid of the rust. Heck, I shoulda just called up Shopsmith & they prolly woulda reminded me 'bout ye olde potato method!!
BTW, I had to look up the word "chelating" and I STILL dunno what it means - let's just say that it works to remove rust!! hehDon't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup... Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee -
If you look at a jar of mayonnaise, it probably has EDTA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid ). A good example of what it does is it binds with metal ions and hangs on to them without binding to the metal. In mayonnaise, it grabs on to the iron and other metals that give the mayo a tinny, metallic, off-taste. They're still there, you just can't taste them. They're also used to mitigate the effects of heavy metal poisoning. Lots of uses...sorry, the chemist in me can't help it. So the potatoes probably have some form of a chelating agent that helps bind the ionic iron - the non-ionic, what you want to keep, doesn't bind.
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The battery effect is a type of electrolysis. Similar to electroplating, except in reverse - moving the iron oxide, battery-like, off the metallic iron using an electrolyte, anode and cathode.
I can't help it!!!
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probe1957 said:I couldn't get one of the screws out of mine this spring when I decided to clean it up so I just sprayed it with PAM and put it in my hot Egg. Came out fine and dandy.
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Anyone tried coca cola.
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nolaegghead said:If you look at a jar of mayonnaise, it probably has EDTA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid ). A good example of what it does is it binds with metal ions and hangs on to them without binding to the metal. In mayonnaise, it grabs on to the iron and other metals that give the mayo a tinny, metallic, off-taste. They're still there, you just can't taste them. They're also used to mitigate the effects of heavy metal poisoning. Lots of uses...sorry, the chemist in me can't help it. So the potatoes probably have some form of a chelating agent that helps bind the ionic iron - the non-ionic, what you want to keep, doesn't bind.
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BizGreenEgg said:nolaegghead said:If you look at a jar of mayonnaise, it probably has EDTA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid ). A good example of what it does is it binds with metal ions and hangs on to them without binding to the metal. In mayonnaise, it grabs on to the iron and other metals that give the mayo a tinny, metallic, off-taste. They're still there, you just can't taste them. They're also used to mitigate the effects of heavy metal poisoning. Lots of uses...sorry, the chemist in me can't help it. So the potatoes probably have some form of a chelating agent that helps bind the ionic iron - the non-ionic, what you want to keep, doesn't bind.
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Funny...just removed the screws from mine and soaked them in evaporust overnight. All rust was gone. Spread canola over everything and wiped off the excess and put everything back together.looks awesome.I have 10 gallons of evaporust in the garage for de-rusting parts from my 62 caddy.
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Stoater said:Anyone tried coca cola.Large BGE and Medium BGE
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nolaegghead said:If you look at a jar of mayonnaise, it probably has EDTA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid ). A good example of what it does is it binds with metal ions and hangs on to them without binding to the metal. In mayonnaise, it grabs on to the iron and other metals that give the mayo a tinny, metallic, off-taste. They're still there, you just can't taste them. They're also used to mitigate the effects of heavy metal poisoning. Lots of uses...sorry, the chemist in me can't help it. So the potatoes probably have some form of a chelating agent that helps bind the ionic iron - the non-ionic, what you want to keep, doesn't bind.
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Ya'll convinced me I ain't ea-tin no more potato's
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I'm not a chemist. I'm an elementary school.teacher. I'm going to make stuff up. The starch from the potato facilitates proper flogination of the rustification to be removed from the DFMT! This would be cool to show students though.Mark Annville, PA
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This whole thread has gone way over my head. :(|)
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Isn't that what keeps the headlights fluid from leaking out of the car?nolaegghead said:The kanooter valve connect to the ..... hip bone!
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the rustification
)Well, there's your problem, You've got a blown johnson rod, and that caused your muffler bearings to seize up.Bx - > NJ ->TX!!!All to get cheaper brisket!
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