[TheForge] Free the Stake!

[Peter Hirst]

I've done a little electrolytic derusting lately, using an alkaline (washing 
soda) batheand putting the work piece on the cathode.  I've never used an 
acid medium, but I would assume it requires reversing the polarity, yes?

pgh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Scheid" <Damales at pollybutte.net>
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Free the Stake!


>
> If you can fit it in some bucket. I have use an electrolytic bath to free
> bolts it might work. Just get it covered in water with a small amount of 
> HC
> acid add a SS plate and a 12 volt battery charger and wait it out a day or
> two.
> Dan Scheid
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> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 7:27 AM
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> Subject: [TheForge] Free the Stake!
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> Years ago, I bought a big, beautiful stake anvil (about 100lb) and a big,
> beautiful swage block (150 lb) as a single auction lot. They were sold
> together because the stake anvil was mounted in the swage block, and the
> auctioneer was not about to attempt to separate them. The bottom end of 
> the
> stake is about 2" square and was driven and no doubt rusted into the 2"
> square in the block. Well, long story short, they are still a single unit,
> although I have tried several times to separate them. I have got some use
> out of them as they are, but each is limited somewhat by the arrangement,
> and the time has come to separate them. This thing has been an albatross 
> for
> more years than I care to admit, and I would be eternally grateful for
> information on how to end the madness.
>
> PGH
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