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"how to" articles on electrolysis
- Thread starter Jaichim24
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Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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This one is pretty good Coin cleaner
I found this site to have a super detailed section on electrolysis. "How to" electrolysis I followed it to the "T", including buying my glass ($.75) my spoon ($.50), and my aligator clips ($.50) from Walmart. Go Walmart! The adapter I found was a 12volt adapter. I had one of those light switch adapters laying around. You plug it into the power, and your adapter into it. On the top is a toggle switch to turn the power on and off. Now I don't have to unplug and re-plug every time I want to check the progress. Works great! Below is a picture of it in action. Also, a few pics of a wheat penny I cleaned up.
Jai
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ihuntrelics!
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Fred (S. Indiana)
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that I made from a small DC hobby train transformer, variable current control, works great for coin sized objects.........
Butch in Colorado
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I cannot post the link to the website that will tell you how to create the mixture of water lemon juice and salt for the cleaning.
So go to Yahoo and do a search on "Electrolysis Coin Cleaning Tutorial" The very first link that is returned will take you to the instructions in how to mix the electrolysis solution and how to connect the DC power supply to the electrode and the item that you wish to clean.
You can get any good size bolt and nut, a couple of rubber washers and a couple of flat washers for your electrode.
Get a Folgers coffee can (PLASTIC) drill one hole the size of your bolt and attach it like in the picture.
Pour the water in to the Folgers can making sure that you are well above the level of the bolt.
Add the lemon juice and salt, stir until the salt is dissolved.
WARNING!!!! Do all of the following with the power supply UNPLUGGED!!!!
DO NOT LET THE COIN TOUCH THE BOLT ON THE INSIDE OF THE COFFEE CAN. IT WILL EXPLODE IN YOUR FACE.
Connect the positive lead to the bolt on the outside of the plastic can and connect the negative lead to the coin (or whatever you want to clean) place that in the mixture.
If you have a long pencil or chopstick, place that on the top of the can and tie the negative lead to that.
Put the coin in the alligator clip and immerse that into the solution.
Plug in your power supply. You should see bubbles begin to form on the coin. If you do then your connections are correct.
If you see bubbles coming off of the bolt inside the solution, your connections are reversed. Unplug the power supply and reverse the connections and reattach everything then plug your power supply back in.
Test this on a coin that you won't care about destroying. Test it on some rusty iron to get an idea of how it works for you.
I have two power supplies that I use:
DC 6 Volt, 200 milliamps (ma)
DC 3 Volt, 200 milliamps (ma)
I also have a couple of big HORKING AMPERAGE power supplies that I have not tried yet..
Binford Models, of course:
DC 12 Volt, 500 milliamps and
DC 12 Volt, 1 AMP (WHHHHHOOOOOO) Vern will be proud of me.
I do not recommend you using either of the above two to clean anything with.
I imagine that when I use them, whatever I intend to clean will disappear. Cool huh?
Enjoy.............
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I cannot post the link to the website that will tell you how to create the mixture of water lemon juice and salt for the cleaning.
So go to Yahoo and do a search on "Electrolysis Coin Cleaning Tutorial" The very first link that is returned will take you to the instructions in how to mix the electrolysis solution and how to connect the DC power supply to the electrode and the item that you wish to clean.
You can get any good size bolt and nut, a couple of rubber washers and a couple of flat washers for your electrode.
Get a Folgers coffee can (PLASTIC) drill one hole the size of your bolt and attach it like in the picture.
Pour the water in to the Folgers can making sure that you are well above the level of the bolt.
Add the lemon juice and salt, stir until the salt is dissolved.
WARNING!!!! Do all of the following with the power supply UNPLUGGED!!!!
DO NOT LET THE COIN TOUCH THE BOLT ON THE INSIDE OF THE COFFEE CAN. IT WILL EXPLODE IN YOUR FACE.
Connect the positive lead to the bolt on the outside of the plastic can and connect the negative lead to the coin (or whatever you want to clean) place that in the mixture.
If you have a long pencil or chopstick, place that on the top of the can and tie the negative lead to that.
Put the coin in the alligator clip and immerse that into the solution.
Plug in your power supply. You should see bubbles begin to form on the coin. If you do then your connections are correct.
If you see bubbles coming off of the bolt inside the solution, your connections are reversed. Unplug the power supply and reverse the connections and reattach everything then plug your power supply back in.
Test this on a coin that you won't care about destroying. Test it on some rusty iron to get an idea of how it works for you.
I have two power supplies that I use:
DC 6 Volt, 200 milliamps (ma)
DC 3 Volt, 200 milliamps (ma)
I also have a couple of big HORKING AMPERAGE power supplies that I have not tried yet..
Binford Models, of course:
DC 12 Volt, 500 milliamps and
DC 12 Volt, 1 AMP (WHHHHHOOOOOO) Vern will be proud of me.
I do not recommend you using either of the above two to clean anything with.
I imagine that when I use them, whatever I intend to clean will disappear. Cool huh?
Enjoy.............
hehe, first hit I get searching yahoo for "Electrolysis Coin Cleaning Tutorial" is the link I posted! There was another one that was 3 pages long that I thought was great too. I wonder if the link I used came up because I had gone to it several times? Anyway, I just noticed that the link I posted doesn't work, however, someone in this post was able to make it work. Going to try it again!
Link 1
Link 2
Link 1
Link 2
Hrmm, my "link 2" doesn't work, because the web address doesn't start with WWW. So, here is a link to the main page. On the right hand side is a listing of the various topics. Find electrolysis and click on it. It is the instructions I used to make my unit.
Last try at making this link work!
Last try at making this link work!
jeff & Maria
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