From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 06:03:05 PDT
At 12:54 PM +0930 9/28/04, Douglas Greville wrote:
> > > > I quite often put rusty STEEL parts in muriatic to
>-snip-
>> and a real mess. BTW, hydrogen is released and is flammable and
>> even explosive.
>
>AND!!!!! the released hydrogen is absorbed into the steel and will
>cause "hydrogen embrittlement". So just think again about what parts
>you have treated in this way.
>Nothing to do with steering or brakes I would hope?
>
>Or for that matter wheel nuts, seat and seat belt mountings, drive
>shaft flange bolts and nuts etc.................?
Yep, I generally prefer a small blasting setup. I
need to get a bead blast cabinet to do it all
properly, but a simple siphon blaster with some
star blast works well.
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