How To Clean Cast Iron Using Electrolysis

Clamp the positive clamp to the sacrificial metal.
How to clean cast iron using electrolysis. What is an electrolysis tank anyway. 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. I have a very rusty old cast iron skillet that i want to clean with electrolysis. Use sodium carbonate at a rate of about a table spoon per gallon of water maybe less. A short video explaining how electrolysis can save your old cast iron cookware and save you a lot of elbow grease.
After electrolysis cleaning of iron relics. 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. Clamp the negative clamp from your battery charger to the piece of cast iron you are cleaning just above the water s surface. 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.
1 rinsing and wire brushing. But we had a problem. Completely surrounding the cast iron piece to be cleaned with the anode metal is best. The skillet needed to be clean really clean like new clean for the process to work. A manual battery charger typically a 2 10 40 200 model.
Rinsing and wire brushing what is black coating and how to clean it off. Set your charger to a manual 12 volt setting. All the online instructions i can find say to use a battery charger to build the electrolysis tank. Oven cleaner lye electrolysis. The idea came from this article chemistry of cast iron seasoning.
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. I don t have one of those but i have a predator inverter generator. An electrolysis tank uses the following materials. You re going to need an electrolyte.