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Post by Chuckie on Aug 19, 2019 7:55:30 GMT -5
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Post by vaporvac on Aug 19, 2019 10:43:53 GMT -5
You could be our guinea pig! LOL! Oh, and never say never!
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Post by mach12 on Aug 19, 2019 10:56:46 GMT -5
I'd sure like to give it a try but so far all of those claims I've investigated have fallen short except for the Barkeepers Friend Foam and a couple of BBQ grill cleaners. I've kind of gone to BKF Foam except for the baked on stuff on steel and cast iron, then I use Easy Off. I picked up several pieces of Revere Wear for my cousin and one of the pans had so much baked on crud on the outside that you almost couldn't tell that it had a copper bottom so I decided to try something similar to the oven cleaning method where you put a dish with ammonia in it in the oven overnight. I put the pan in a Rubbermaid tub with the ammonia in a couple of those canned chicken cans that are like oversized tuna cans and most of the mess came off with the garden hose and the rest wiped off with a nylon scrubby. I was really impressed but am not yet ready to say this is something that works because it was a one-time shot that may only work with whatever they had baked onto the pan. I need to try it again a couple of times and want to see how it does with aluminum. We're so overwhelmed with other stuff at the moment that it'll probably be after the rains come back, normally mid-November, before I can get to it.
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Post by vaporvac on Aug 19, 2019 12:38:05 GMT -5
Isn't ammonia supposed to pit aluminum?
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Post by mach12 on Aug 19, 2019 22:02:33 GMT -5
Isn't ammonia supposed to pit aluminum? I think it does if you soak aluminum in ammonia. Back in the early 70's we used an ammonia and water mix to clean that white corrosion from aluminum parts but it was done in kind of an open shed type building so that explosive hydrogen gas didn't build up. Since the cleaning process I'm planning to try uses fumes it could go either way I suppose. I have boxes of old aluminum camping pots and some are total junk that have too many years of campfire soot buildup and one of them would probably be a good one to try. If it pits it, no problem. If it makes hydrogen gas, I'm gonna have some fun - and the chicken hawks are gonna think my propane potato gun is nothing. If I suddenly drop off the site you'll know it made more hydrogen gas than I anticipated...
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Post by dwayner2 on Aug 23, 2019 12:49:02 GMT -5
You reminded me of something I heard on a Houston radio station back when gas was $3.65/ gal. People there didn't think hydrogen cars were a good idea because they produce water as a byproduct of burning hydrogen and that would raise the humidity levels in the area. OK people, the humidity is ALWAYS between 80%-100% living on the coast....what would change??? Geeeze!
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Post by mach12 on Aug 23, 2019 17:36:17 GMT -5
Kind of like some of the guys I used to scuba dive with who wanted to cancel a dive because it was raining.
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