Come on Al, how about stumping up some special ausmini member's only prices for that evil fizzy stuff you peddle?

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Retail Vinegar is 4% Acetic acid. Industrial is 10%. Some eastern european cultures like concentrations on retail up to about 12%

We make it at 12%, then filter it and dilute back to 10 or 4% depending on whether its intended for retail or industrial.
KB

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Now if you want strong acetic acid get 'Strong Acetic Acid BP' (Pharmaceutical standard) = 33.3% or Glacial Acetic Acid =99% pure

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Day two and it it starting to make a difference, there are some bits of bare metal. The bolt is still stuck though.


I know that vinegar is a weak acid, that is one of the reasons for using it. From what I have found in the past the vinegar has good penetrating properties.

I use hydrochloric acid at work to wash my truck. That is what I am going to use in part 3 of this experiment. It is great for cleaning concrete off a truck and it also removes surface rust very quickly. (to be replaced by a fresh coat of surface rust in about an hour. )

Old school panel beaters use phosphoric acid and HCL on a regular basis to quickly remove rust.

Phosphoric acid works well on alloy wheels as a cleaner as well.

But in both cases its a wipe on - wait - wash off - not something you leave for a week.

Mike

If you give a girl enough red wine it has great penetrating properties.

Have you tried the vinegar with a 9v battery running across the vinegar to the metal ?

He can't - because unless the batteries are Eveready, they get tired too quickly with all that running.

I would have thought that that is a next stage - once the rusting has been dissolved away and the frozen bolt freed then electrophoretic replacement of the pitting can be done.

Mike

used it a few times at work.. great stuff..

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I've found HCL can leave salts in the pores of some steels, causing rust to re-appear later. Not good

Bloke in a moke said-->

If you give a girl enough red wine it has great penetrating properties.

gotta laugh at that one,,, so true

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Phosphoric acid is nasty stuff....whack some rubber gloves on and think about eye protection if you are going to be splashing the stuff about

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Here is day three...


Exciting stuff isn't it?

Wow thats amazing

It keeps me off the streets.

I think you have to rust proof your bench

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