Hello everyone, this past Christmas my wife purchased me my first metal detector and am having a blast! This past weekend I took my first outing looking for civil war relics. While I didn't find anything that was war related per say, I did find some old tools and some old railroad relics that are heavily encrusted with
rust. I attempted to use the Electrolysis method this past weekend using a 6 amp car battery charger, this worked on the smaller objects but on the large tools it doesn't generate enough current to work apparently. I'm thinking I'm going to need to buy a 30amp charger for the big stuff.
What I would like to try though is the LYE/ZINC cleaning method. I've found a good bit of info online and thru this forum of how to do it but I can't find specifics. IE, how much lye and or zinc to use with x amnt. of water.
Also, I'm having a dickens of a time trying to find items that I can use that are made of zinc. Anyone have any idea of things that I could readily puchase from a home depot or lowes store that would be made of zinc? What do you all use for your zinc base? I called around to some boat dealers about the zinc anodes but those things are very very pricey.
Thanks for all the help!!
David
rust. I attempted to use the Electrolysis method this past weekend using a 6 amp car battery charger, this worked on the smaller objects but on the large tools it doesn't generate enough current to work apparently. I'm thinking I'm going to need to buy a 30amp charger for the big stuff.
What I would like to try though is the LYE/ZINC cleaning method. I've found a good bit of info online and thru this forum of how to do it but I can't find specifics. IE, how much lye and or zinc to use with x amnt. of water.
Also, I'm having a dickens of a time trying to find items that I can use that are made of zinc. Anyone have any idea of things that I could readily puchase from a home depot or lowes store that would be made of zinc? What do you all use for your zinc base? I called around to some boat dealers about the zinc anodes but those things are very very pricey.
Thanks for all the help!!
David