Getting the zinc off of galvanized parts

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Post by Mike Everman » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:06 am

Or run a marathon and use your lactic acid build-up. heh heh
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Post by Mike Everman » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:11 am

Works even better on the gold cadmium plating that came on brake line fittings.
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Post by Mark » Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:59 am

Or I wonder how citric acid would perform, or malic acid from apples, or tartaric acid from grapes, or boric acid, or oxalic acid, or phosphoric acid or lysergic acid or carbonic acid or formic acid or benzoic acid or tannic acid or salicylic acid or cinnamic acid or palmitic acid or ...

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Post by Mike Everman » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:00 am

.....or windowpane...
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Post by Mark » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:36 pm

In that case the zinc might seem to melt away. But that reminds me a Pyrex or quartz glass pulsating combustion device would be a window into another world rarely seen. If only one of us knew some glass blower.
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Post by Mark » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:58 pm

Not that these would fit the bill, but they are interestingly squid-like or imaginative in twists and turns.

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