How To Clean Cast Iron Using Electrolysis
How to clean rusty cast iron with electrolysis using a generator.
How to clean cast iron using electrolysis. Clamp the negative clamp from your battery charger to the piece of cast iron you are cleaning just above the water s surface. The idea came from this article chemistry of cast iron seasoning. Clamp the positive clamp to the sacrificial metal. This is a method using a manual battery charger sacrificial stainless steel and an electrolyte solution that will clean rusty cast iron and steel items. The skillet needed to be clean really clean like new clean for the process to work.
But we had a problem. Keith narrowed it down to three options. A short video explaining how electrolysis can save your old cast iron cookware and save you a lot of elbow grease. All the online instructions i can find say to use a battery charger to build the electrolysis tank. Use sodium carbonate at a rate of about a table spoon per gallon of water maybe less.
The first two options sounded toxic the third potentially explosive. I don t have one of those but i have a predator inverter generator. What is an electrolysis tank anyway. You re going to need an electrolyte. After electrolysis cleaning of iron relics.
You can also get a transcript of the video. If you put something between the piece and the metal a shadow of crud will be left on the piece where the object blocked the flow of current from the piece. Completely surrounding the cast iron piece to be cleaned with the anode metal is best. Rinsing and wire brushing what is black coating and how to clean it off. An electrolysis tank uses the following materials.
I have a very rusty old cast iron skillet that i want to clean with electrolysis. 1 rinsing and wire brushing. Set your charger to a manual 12 volt setting. A manual battery charger typically a 2 10 40 200 model.