Electrolite?? what happened to it ???

[MrPontiac]

Moved to a rectangular from a round one, topped it off with about 3/4 of distilled water, next day everything turned white milkish color?? I ran it threw coffee filters first, done it before without these results. Ph is at 6.2 witch is good, now what do i do, still noticing some sedimants at the bottom of electrolite??What could of happened??

[KCV6]

All I can think is there must have been something in the retangular plastic container. My only advice would be to run the tank up to temp and dummy plate some bits to see how it works.

Cheers

Mark

[MrPontiac]

Bran new rectangular tank, nothing in it?? man im confused??

[CarWiz]

Don't know where you are but did it get "cold"? Cold temperatures will fog up chemistry and could cause sediment. Heat it and see if it clears up and the sediment dissolves. If not, something was added to contaminate it. Don't leave anodes, wires or heaters in tanks when not in use.

[MrPontiac]

i am attempying to run it thru a filter and going to see what happened, stay tuned!!

[MrPontiac]

ran the electro thru some coffee filters and then i bought a carbon filter, ive got about 80% out, i fill alot better now, im about 1 gallon shy, im asking now if i should buy from caswell and ad it to my excisting solution to make up the differance

[MrPontiac]

After running it thru charcoal filter my electolite is about 85% clear now, question is can i buy the liquid copy cad solution for 1 gal. 1/2 and make up what i need?? Ive tryed plating a few parts its showing high and low spots where its not plating,

[KCV6]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean? if you mean can you buy the smaller kit and add it to try and boost the chemicals then yes.

I'd just add some brightener and keep plating test pieces. It is just chloride zinc so it is just a mix of ammonium Chloride and Zinc concentrate with a brightener. It went cloudy, so there is no doubt the Ammonium Chrloride reacted with the new tank, or something in the new tank.

Ring your local chemical supplies and get a pound of Ammonium chloride crystals. Half fill a small air tight container with crystals and fill up most of the way with distilled. regularly shake this until all the crystals disolve. Get your tank running and start adding through a filter a small amount of the ammonium chloride solution at a time and see if the plating improves. The ratios of ammonium chloride to zinc concentrate for 25L (you do the conversion) is 1 litre of zinc concentrate to 2 Kg of ammonium Chloride to about 22L distilled/de-ionised water. The way to mix is make sure the water is ambient (between 25 and 30 degrees celcius) mix the crystals to 10 litres of water (about half the water) till disolved (takes a few hours). filter through cloth filter, add all the zinc concentrate and then top up with remaining water. This solution will plate dull cad like zinc at room temperature at a voltage range of 0.5 to 1.2Vdc (0.02 ASI). Add any zinc chloride brightener and you will get bright zinc.
In fairness to Caswell I will not divulge what zinc concentrate is, however it's not hard to work out with a bit of searching.

Happy plating

Mark

[KCV6]

OK, I have now had a coffee and pondered your problems further.

You have had trouble with olive drab and changing zinc tanks. What is possibly common here.

What about your distilled water? This has been added to both? From the same batch?

Just a thought

Anyway I'm off to the shed to finish these zinc die-cast bits

cheers

Mark

[MrPontiac]

v6 Thanks so much for your help!! learning alot!!Green drab, still has me d.ead in the water, i even called caswell and talked to them, again , i was told to gradually ad formic clear acid to the solution until ph comes up?? I stared by adding 1/4 bottle then 1/2 then the hole bottle, only went from 1.6 recalabrated meter to 1.9 with whole bottle installed, In precisely 2 gals. of distilled water. I love the Caswell products but they really need to get some help with this product. Flat out does not work at all.