[Sca-cooks] Cleaning metal

[Saint Phlip]

Suggestion-

Home Despot has 5 gallon buckets with lids for about $7. I use them to
store my various dyes, and was planning on dedicating one to this
experiment. If they're lidded, the mosquitos aren't going to find them
very useful- and I suspect that the mixture would not be very useful
for them to breed anyway.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps
<dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, St Phlip! This sounds an interesting idea, and would be easy enough
> to test out on a small scale, without filling up a spare trash can with a
> sugar water solution and making a paradise for our mosquitoes. The
> electrochemistry method still sounds neat, maybe when the little rugrats are
> a little older I can try that one too.
> Cheers,
> Isabella
>
> Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
> Frank Zappa
>
> To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
> administering medicine to the dead.
> Thomas Paine
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:33 AM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Cleaning metal
>
>
>> After the discussion we had here recently about cleaning up cast iron
>> and other steel objects, some of my mundane smithing friends started
>> discussing another technique which should work well for those of you
>> nervous about playing with the electrolysis method (battery charger)
>> and who aren't in a hurry.
>>
>> Basicly, you take a bucket, and you fill it with 1 molasses to 10
>> water, and let the metal soak in that for a couple of weeks.
>> Apparently, it cleans the metal up well, and at the end of the time,
>> all you need is some minor scrubbing to finish it up.
>>
>> Now, I've never used this method, so I can't swear to it from personal
>> experience, but several of the guys I respect most on that particular
>> List swore by it. I figure it's certainly work a try, and will likely
>> be trying it on a project of mine in the next month or so.
>>
>> --
>> Saint Phlip
>>
>> Heat it up
>> Hit it hard
>> Repent as necessary.
>>
>> Priorities:
>>
>> It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.
>>
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>> notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow
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-- 
Saint Phlip

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

.I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow