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.
How to clean cast iron using electrolysis. After the final electrolysis session is completed switch the power off pull the artifact out of the electrolytic solution and treat the artifact following the steps 1 through 3 on page 25. Set your charger to a manual 12 volt setting. Use sodium carbonate at a rate of about a table spoon per gallon of water maybe less. 1 rinsing and wire brushing. Electrolysis at work on a cast iron skillet electrolysis is largely a line of sight process meaning the side of the piece closest to the sacrificial metal will become cleaner first.
The skillet needed to be clean really clean like new clean for the process to work. An electrolysis tank uses the following materials. I have a very rusty old cast iron skillet that i want to clean with electrolysis. Keith narrowed it down to three options. After electrolysis cleaning of iron relics.
The first two options sounded toxic the third potentially explosive. But we had a problem. Completely surrounding the cast iron piece to be cleaned with the anode metal is best. The idea came from this article chemistry of cast iron seasoning. A short video explaining how electrolysis can save your old cast iron cookware and save you a lot of elbow grease.
I don t have one of those but i have a predator inverter generator. All the online instructions i can find say to use a battery charger to build the electrolysis tank. How to clean rusty cast iron with electrolysis using a generator. Rinsing and wire brushing what is black coating and how to clean it off. Clamp the positive clamp to the sacrificial metal.
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. Oven cleaner lye electrolysis. You can also get a transcript of the video. What is an electrolysis tank anyway.