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Old 04-09-2008, 10:31 PM
mkriegs mkriegs is offline
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Default Re: degreaser question

Grr, this is my third run in a row at %100 part failure rate.

It was almost impossible to get an angle where you could see the flaws past the glare off of the gloss finish but here it is:

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...7/P4090031.jpg

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...7/P4090028.jpg

I'm pretty much convinced that this is due to improper rinse after the acid bath just like you said. I literally just realized that I've gotten kind of cheap/lazy and haven't been soaking the parts in distilled water in addition to spraying. Instead I've just been spraying them twice as hard with a garden sprayer full of DW thinking it would be good enough.

I really need to start making an etched-in-stone checklist of my process to avoid this sort of thing.
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