Pot Metal Or Not? - Plating Powder Coating Buffing Anodizing

rabiddog22 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-12-2002, 03:35 PM

Thank you.

mcaswell · #2 (**permalink**) 04-12-2002, 07:31 PM

You can take a drop of acid, muriatic or sulfuric and drop it on the part. If it fizzes violently, it is pot metal.

rabiddog22 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-12-2002, 07:57 PM

Would battery acid work? I would prefer to not tamper with my car battery. Is there a similar household cleaner/chemical that contains enough acidic trace amounts to produce the same chemical reaction?

mcaswell · #4 (**permalink**) 04-13-2002, 12:22 PM

Yes, battery acid = sulfuric acid.

You can go to a hardware store and buy some swimming pool/concrete cleaner...that's muriatic acid.

If you are doing plating, having these acids on hand is useful anyway. They're the basis for the pickels used to de-plate etc.

rabiddog22 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-13-2002, 10:23 PM

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caswell wrote:
Yes, battery acid = sulfuric acid.

You can go to a hardware store and buy some swimming pool/concrete cleaner...that's muriatic acid.

If you are doing plating, having these acids on hand is useful anyway. They're the basis for the pickels used to de-plate etc.

Thank you! I'll go to Ace first thing in the morning. Then hopefully to my friend's, to collect the bet money I will win.

mcaswell · #6 (**permalink**) 04-14-2002, 10:24 AM

I think a 50/50 split would be fair

rabiddog22 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-14-2002, 12:38 PM

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caswell wrote:
I think a 50/50 split would be fair

Well, maybe if he did'nt already owe me so much money. Maybe I'll be nice and deduct it!

But if it is pot metal,what extra materials/solutions will I need?

mcaswell · #8 (**permalink**) 04-14-2002, 02:18 PM

What kit of ours do you have?

Most likely, you'll just need a Pot Metal Primer kit.

rabiddog22 · #9 (**permalink**) 04-14-2002, 04:22 PM

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caswell wrote:
What kit of ours do you have?

Most likely, you'll just need a Pot Metal Primer kit.

I have the Copy Chrome Kit. When I am better at plating I will purchase the triple chrome kit.

mcaswell · #10 (**permalink**) 04-14-2002, 10:27 PM

Then you'll need the Pot Metal Primer Kit to plate over the Pot Metal before Copy Chroming.

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