On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:56:05 +0800, Kennedy
wrote:

On 15-Mar-14 7:46 PM, thunk wrote:
I have a bunch of the little silica gel packets saved and dry and use
some from time to time. Just got a similar dessicant packet from the
nori we made sushi with, and it's labelled "Lime Dessicant/Do Not
Eat/Do Not Open/Your Children Will Die/blah/blah".

So wp says this stuff is (by now) calcium hydroxide. Any use in the
home shop? We eat a lot of sushi.


I dunno, but I do know you can re-dehydrate desiccant for reuse. Low
heat for a long time does the job.

Maybe put good tools in a ziplock baggy with a desiccant pack for long
term storage.

I was thinking more as a chemical than as a dessicant. I find myself
doing quite a bit of electrolytic derusting with the current batch of
projects and might want to do some small plating after I find out more
about it.