The Power of Electrolysis | How To Transform Rusty Tools!

Brilliant!!!!!!!!Many thanks

I want to know how you made a watertight wooden box...

Gloves moving a lot…

Physics! Chemistry! Thanks.

A hammer with rust is same as a hammer squeaky clean new, it’s inherently a 50,000 year old tool.

1. Can the solution be saved for future use?
2. For how long?

Please give us a estimate of the solution concentration?
How much sodium carbonate per liter of water?

The ratio will depend on temperature. Warmer water = more Na2CO2 will dissolve. And when the water won't hold any more, there will be no benefit to adding any more.

I just saw this video and im probably a bit late but didnt see in the video or comments....

-Would a 6 volt charger work as well as a 12 volt charger or a 24 volt?

- with a larger part, table from a table saw perhaps, require more voltage or more ampers? Would the anode and cathodes need to be larger too?

I'll Google it in case I've commented to late here but appreciate the video
Thanks you

Cool video. How would you go about doing some metal screws. I stripped an ithem down and it had some rusty screws holding the plastic parts together. Cheers.

So, it could have been done in the bottom of a soft drink bottle?..

using the option to the use of hot water is better in my opinion since the water molecules are already in an excited state making things happen bit quicker
however it is not a deal breaker
Cool or cold water is ok and fine also😊

I'm an electrician and I never knew it was that easy. Cracking video! 👍

that hammer was perfectly usable before you took the rust off

Will copper work as the anode instead of steel?

Great video. What if your rusty items are soaked in WD40, will it still work, if not how would I clean off the WD40? Thank you

Use bleech on that handle.

Connect "-" to "remove rust from this".
Connect "+" to "put rust on here".

Probably best to have your charger plugged into an RCD just in case it goes faulty.

Hi Good video, were do you get your sodium carbonate crystals from ?

Could this method clean a boat diesel tank ?

This is one amazing video. Thank you for posting it. I am going to use this process to get the rust off bicycle wheels from a bike I am restoring.

This is really awesome but you could have just used the wire wheel and accomplished the same results in 5 minutes. However I really do love the electrolysis working! Thanks good video!

Fantastic Dom.I can't wait to get started.I think I've got soda crystals to soften the washing machine water. And as a biker,always looking for ways to clean up bits & bobs. Cheers Dom. L&R, Tom.

Can I put my whole salt rusted car in there amd have it come out looking brand new?

What am I missing? I copper plate wood items I turn on the lathe (after sealing them, then coating them to make them conductive). In doing that, I put copper on the positive lead, the anode, and the copper moves off the anode and into the solution, to replace copper sulfate already in the solution and that is being deposited on the item tied to the cathode, the negative lead.

If I put the item being plated on the anode/positive side, it would try to remove the conductive surface and deposit it on the cathode side.

I just assumed you'd remove the iron by trying to move it to the cathodes with the flow of electricity, just like plating.

You use a battery 🔋 and peace of iron and carbonate sodium 😅 negative to the hammer 🔨 and positive to the iron 😊ok

Okay positive it's more better 😅

Great way to remove rust from the inside of your motorcycle petrol tank.

talking way too much !!!

For those unsure

Sodium carbonate is a relatively basic salt, where "basic" is the chemical opposite of acidic. It has the formula Na2CO3 and goes by the colloquial names "washing soda, soda ash, and soda crystals”.

With the chemical formula NaHCO3, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is structurally very similar to sodium carbonate. It's much less caustic, however, and is only a very mild base. It has many common household applications, including as a cleaning agent and as a leavening agent in baked goods. You can also ingest sodium bicarbonate in water as a mild home remedy for acid stomach; it neutralizes stomach acid, relieving symptoms of heartburn and producing the harmless compounds carbon dioxide and water.

Just use evaporust.

You can also use salt does good to

Nice video. Perhaps you can blue the tools? Have you tried plating the tools with zinc using the electrolysis bath?

Could a stainless steel anode be used to prevent/reduce the build-up of oxide?

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Dominic, Iv used this method a few times, works great,
But before I used electrolysis method I used molasses, the cattle feed from farmers supplies,
I had a cobblers leather machine with several cogs ,rollers.spindles hand wheel etc weighed about 60 lbs dam heavy for its size,about 18"x 18"x 8"rusted and stuck so bad,
Filled a container with a ratio about 100-1 water /molasses can`t quite remember now,

Left in the mixture for two weeks,it does start to smell and brown froth appears on top,as the mixture eats at the rust,just like your method if left,

When pulled out complete rust free , it did darken the metal parts as most wast cast iron or cast steel .everything freed up,
I gave it a quick rinse and light scotch pad in soapy warm water dried of with heat gun then a blend of bees wax mixed with oil,
kept rust free for 4 years, but rust came back after the 4 years left in a damp shed,not used and not covered up,

American vintage body repairers have been known to use molasses for years for big rusty panels,like car bonnets.
I think on the web it states chelating agents in the molasses mainly cyclic hydroxyamic acids are effective to chelate iron that makes it soluble, but can damage other metals so use only for iron rust not all corrosion, I have used it on all my tools as well and they seemed fine,

But I am sure when dipping cast parts into this molasses stuff it can weaken them due to it absorbing the carbons from the cast,something like that I read,
Do not get the fermented molasses on the skin it stinks and the smell lasts on the skin loll,

I do detest hearing "FINGS" instead of THINGS, especially as school teachers said we would amount to nothing if we did. To hear (rich) footballers and TV presenters/personalities saying "Fa" instead of "tha" really irks.

What’s free hours!

I’ve been doing this for years and it truly works wonders. I dug up some old single shive and double shive blocks buried in my yard that had probably been there since the 1890s They were frozen solid with rust and seemed beyond repair. I cooked them in the tub for about 4 days and when I took them out, the dirt and sand had dropped off them and after a good rinse the shives turned like they were just built. I washed them again and dried and painted them and they are like new with a good lubricant. It’s like magic

You talk far to much.

Thanks for this video. For some unknown reason, I thought one had to have the charger connected to a battery and that to your anode and cathode. Thanks for putting me straight. By the way, why is the gopher retained on the Repair Shop? I've never seen him do any furniture restoration.

I love it when my Hammer fizzes. its a good day when.

Get rid of the background music.

How about tools like clamps or crescent wrenches that are rusted closed. Thanks

Think ill stick with my ultrasonic cleaner. However the technique for doing electrolysis sounds interesting. 🙂🙂

Cheers. Great vid. Didn’t think it was that easy. Will be definitely giving it a go as soon as.

The ratio is 100g / 3L of water

Great info thanks - I would rather restore my old bike bits myself so this seems ideal - how (or where) do you get rid of the waste liquid?

The song - Du.b ways to die, comes to mind, Ridiculous idea