"Me Mine" wrote in message
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I am a chemist so I will try to clear up a few comments here. (Though I
know little about treating metal for galvanizing.)

YO, John!....

This is a little like asking a doctor for medical advice over lunch, but...

When we use HCL to clean rusted steel, or to strip the galvanizing off of
electrical steel tubing, how should we neutralize it to prevent further
(accelerated) rusting? We've heard that dipping it in a lye solution will
leave NaCl in the pores of the cleaned metal and will lead to further
rusting, but we (I) wouldn't know the facts if our (my) life depended on it.

What's the story? Thanks, doc...

Ed Huntress