Overdue update!

[Craig W]

Hi Tony. I apologise for the lack of accompanying photos in this thread. Try as I might, it appears that the majority of images I attempt to attach simply won't upload? I think they exceed the megapixel data limit. Are you on Facebook by chance? If so I'll happily send you the selection of images (pictures paint a thousand words)
In essence, a full drum of water submersing the entire block, I added half a box of the washing powder, no doubt far more than required, but so what, it's very cheap & it's a detergent so it can only be beneficial? I had my heavy duty charger set on 12v low charge, but on initial start it drew a high 20-25amp. This slowly dropped as the hours passed, presumably as the corrosion was removed from the block & attracted to the anode bars the resistance reduced accordingly. By the time I was ready to lift the block & begin jet washing/rinsing, I was unable to increase the power settings which by the end of the cycle had dropped down to about 2amps.
As mentioned before, after x2 cleaning cycles the block looks like new. I'll be doing the crank next which has plenty of surface corrosion to address.
As I said, if you're on FB I'll happily add you & forward the pics.

[Tony Smith]

No Facebook for me, sorry. Don't worry, you're doing a good job of the descriptions, thanks for sharing.

As for posting pictures, wouldn't stress too much as you'll eventually get the idea. It probably is the image file size or image width, as most people take pics on their phones these days which have massive pixel sizes and storage. If you can't use an editing program to resize the pics, see if you change the settings on your phone to reduce the image size.

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...9&postcount=10

[Ron Pier]

I guess Craig won't mind me posting some pictures. Ron

[Craig W]

Nice one Ron. Please upload any additional pics that you feel may be of interest. The crankshaft is in the tank today! I'll forward the pictures to you tomorrow. Expecting a good result. By the way, hope your Van is behaving itself?

[Tony Smith]

Going back a few years now, but this was a previous thread on various chemical and electro means of cleaning parts:

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=147

[Ron Pier]

Craig's crank clean up. Ron

[Andrew Rowe]

Just got a small question out there. Trying to read up on this process which looks quite spectacular for these engine cleaning results. Does Hydrogen embrittlement ever needs to be considered using this process? Or is it that the items are never in the "Bath" that long to cause any degree of this micro atom action? Are there Chemical experts still out there?, Cheers Andrew.