[TheForge] last project....electropolihing stainless

Reynolds [email protected]
Wed Jun 4 14:37:01 2003 

Ries:

Thanks for passing along this very useful information on electroplating stainless. This type of posting makes this forum invaluable to me, as I try to make my business profitable and not be constantly consuming time rediscovering the wheel. Sort of an electronic apprenticehip. Thanks again.
Reynolds




 --- On Wed 06/04, RIES NIEMI < [email protected] > wrote:
From: RIES NIEMI [mailto: [email protected]]
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:17:54 -0700
Subject: Re: [TheForge] last project

Bob- those knots are really cool.<br>Was that your sculpture, or were you fabricating it for someone else?<br><br>they look sandblasted-is that what you did?<br><br>Lately I have been forging a bunch of stainless, and we have it<br>electropolished. That makes it shinier than your knots look, though.<br>My electropolisher has a 4'x4'x8' tank, so most stuff goes right in, but we<br>are getting ready to install 550 feet of fence, and we will need to tig weld<br>some of the connections, so I got a mini portable electropolisher. I bought<br>mine, because I needed it now, and the job paid for it, but I am sure you<br>could make your own. The cheapies use battery chargers, but mine is 40 volts<br>instead of just 12v- it means you can use a milder acid, with less possible<br>damage to yourself and surroundings. Just a low voltage dc power supply, a<br>ground clamp, and a wand made from a piece of 1/2" copper tube. You wrap the<br>wand in fiberglass cloth, dip that in mild acid- I jus
 t buy it from this<br>place in LA called screenpro, so I dont know exactly what kind of acid, but<br>its pretty dilute. The fiberglass cloth wears out every few minutes- it<br>actually burns up. So you keep replacing it. But we have taken fresh forged<br>stainless bars, which are almost black after they cool, and 10 seconds or so<br>of rubbing, and they are shiny again.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge<br>theforge mail list group photo site is<br>http://www.photoaccess.com<br>Login:  [email protected]<br>password:  anvil<br>___________<br><br><br>

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