Bumper prep

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julianf

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Sadly, it looks like ill have to do the middle bit by hand -

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Ill take some more photos in a couple of days....
 
You realise of course that if it was actually sitting in a barrel of Coca-cola the barrel is plenty big enough.
As the lowest portion is turned to "gloop" by the Coke, it will just sink lower and lower until the entire bumper is Ferrous-Soup. :D
 
Ill take it out later today and go over it with a pressure washer, and see if there is much change. It normally takes a while, and it's only been a day, but I'll take a progress photo all the same.
 
Not a lot of change after 24hrs, but i would expect to need far longer anyway.

This is an untreated section (indeed, you can see the water line to the right), however this is actuall not a bad area (i mean a wire brush would do that) - the other bits are starting to laminate.

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This is the submerged section -

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The brown areas are where the steel had started to laminate, and the process has lifted the rusty lamination, and ive blown it away with the pressure washer, exposing brown rust underneath.


Again 24hrs is too short a time. I need the tank for somthing more pressing, but, in an ideal world, id just leave it in for a week or so, and forget about it.

Im running this at about 10v at present.
 
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