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removing nickel plating
The suggestion is to use an electrolyte made up of a 60/40% mix of
sulphuric acid/water, plus 30g/litre of glycerine (glycerol?). Q's: It's difficult to buy concentrated sulphuric acid in a smallish quantity at a reasonable price. Can battery acid (35%) be used instead? Is glycerine the same stuff as glycerol? Isn't glycerine a liquid? Why is it expressed in terms of weight? What's the glycerine/ol for? Thanks Jordan |
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Spit-ballin here...
De-plating is, in principle, the exact electro-chemical opposite of plating. There is a fair amount of experimental lattitutde in the plating process (art??), and f'sure there is much more lattitude in the de-plating process--ie, much less critical. So the ""answers"" to your Qs are Sulf. acid: Yeah, battery acid should work. Acid drain cleaner should work! Glycerin (no "e") = glycerol. 'tis a liquid, but wt measure is interchangeably used w/ vol. by chemists, regardless of reagent state--they have lots of neat accurate scales floating around--ask any college student who wound up w/ a triple-beam balance in his dorm room.... no no, not for *that*.... .. Here, I'd guess it's use might be to help precipitate dissolving nickel, but in principle, it's not necessary. The acid is likely not strictly necessary either; these items/concentrations were proly found to make things go faster. But mebbe not! ---------------------------- Mr. P.V.'d formerly Droll Troll "Jordan" wrote in message u... The suggestion is to use an electrolyte made up of a 60/40% mix of sulphuric acid/water, plus 30g/litre of glycerine (glycerol?). Q's: It's difficult to buy concentrated sulphuric acid in a smallish quantity at a reasonable price. Can battery acid (35%) be used instead? Is glycerine the same stuff as glycerol? Isn't glycerine a liquid? Why is it expressed in terms of weight? What's the glycerine/ol for? Thanks Jordan |
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In essence, when de-plating, you're pretending that the thing you're
de-plating is the source electrode, and that you are *plating* the *other* electrode. Fergot what's what ito of anode/cathode, but you get the idea... ---------------------------- Mr. P.V.'d formerly Droll Troll "Proctologically Violated©®" wrote in message ... Spit-ballin here... De-plating is, in principle, the exact electro-chemical opposite of plating. There is a fair amount of experimental lattitutde in the plating process (art??), and f'sure there is much more lattitude in the de-plating process--ie, much less critical. So the ""answers"" to your Qs are Sulf. acid: Yeah, battery acid should work. Acid drain cleaner should work! Glycerin (no "e") = glycerol. 'tis a liquid, but wt measure is interchangeably used w/ vol. by chemists, regardless of reagent state--they have lots of neat accurate scales floating around--ask any college student who wound up w/ a triple-beam balance in his dorm room.... no no, not for *that*.... . Here, I'd guess it's use might be to help precipitate dissolving nickel, but in principle, it's not necessary. The acid is likely not strictly necessary either; these items/concentrations were proly found to make things go faster. But mebbe not! ---------------------------- Mr. P.V.'d formerly Droll Troll "Jordan" wrote in message u... The suggestion is to use an electrolyte made up of a 60/40% mix of sulphuric acid/water, plus 30g/litre of glycerine (glycerol?). Q's: It's difficult to buy concentrated sulphuric acid in a smallish quantity at a reasonable price. Can battery acid (35%) be used instead? Is glycerine the same stuff as glycerol? Isn't glycerine a liquid? Why is it expressed in terms of weight? What's the glycerine/ol for? Thanks Jordan |
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I'm told the job is anode when de-nickelling.
Thanks Jordan Proctologically Violated©® wrote: In essence, when de-plating, you're pretending that the thing you're de-plating is the source electrode, and that you are *plating* the *other* electrode. Fergot what's what ito of anode/cathode, but you get the idea... |
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