Electrolysis rust removal

[hemmjo]

How about an broken shaft of a golf club? Wondering what those would be good for.
Geffre

I have never tried it, but I would think the carbon fiber golf club shafts, as well as most other carbon fiber products, have so much resin encapsulating the carbon fiber that the carbon would be insulated by the resin and not available to the electrical process.

[Hopefuldave]

As in carbon arc gouging rods?

They will work, BUT if left in the solution they tend to dissolve, I think they may be graphite with a clay binder? I use slices from block graphite, which can be expensive if you don't rescue the blocks from a skip....

The slices I use are about 12mm / 1/2" thick, 75mm/3" wide, with a foot or so immersed I can get up to 25A and trip the breaker on my battery charger

It helps if the graphite surface area in solution is about the same as (or bigger than) the area of the steel being de-rusted in the EGBERT (Electrolytic Gungey Bubbling Encrustation Removal Tank), I think?

Dave H, (the other one)

[C Tucker]

I have used this process to clean up lots of parts in a tractor restoration, including the engine block.
I would never waste time bolting the anode to the container, because , from my experience, they need cleaned at least every day.
I used a 55 gallon plastic drum for the engine block and scrap pieces of tin for the anodes, placing several large pieces all around the part to be cleaned.
Very simple to just hang them from the edge of the bucket or barrel and clip leads to connect them.
You definitely want to do this in a well ventilated area, because the water breaks down, releasing Hydrogen and Oxygen into the surround air. Quite the explosive mixture, if contained and subjected to a small spark!

[shopandmath]

That is a good idea
I use acid (mostly toilet bole cleaner)
that looks so much cleaner
Ray