On 2010-05-10, Ignoramus20711 wrote:
On 2010-05-10, Steve Lusardi wrote:

Save yourself some trouble, get a plastic barrel and fill it half
full of muriatic acid 30%. Get another barrel and fill it half full
of a heavy concentration of Baking Soda. Degrease the vice, drop in
acid for at last an hour, maybe overnight. Remove, rinse with a hose
and drop in the soda barrel for an hour. Remove and hose down, blow
off the water with air and then oil. This works a treat, but be
careful, use rubber gloves and a face mask at least.

I have a bucketful of half diluted (appx. 10%) muriatic acid.

I could pretty easily dip the vise in it, indeed.


What I forgot to mention is two things:

1) Rusted things look very weird when they come out of a muriatic acid
bath. I derusted a few things in muriatic acid, the key is wash them
in soda right away and then bake in oven or barbeque immediately so
they dry before rusting, then oil. Everything comes out looking very
strange, looking more like potmetal than like steel.

2) I wanted to try and see how the tumbler works. I thought that it
might make those vise parts look kind of nice.

i