G'day folks,
As part of my rebuild project => https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/1965-series-2a-station-wagon-in-holland.298002/ <= I've been finding ways to cope with the boredom of cleaning, derusting and painting.
If you've been following the thread you might have noticed that I zoom off onto tangents in search of something a bit whacky to do. One of these things is actually showing some signs of success!
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Story so far - took apart a dynamo to find all the parts are rusty
Now I couldn't find replacement parts so I figured I might be able to derust (again) and then find some way of preserving what I have.
The obvious thing to do is to go buy an electro-plating kit from Frosts (for example) and be done with it. However, I'm essentially a diesel owner (!) so a cheaper solution needed to be found.
I stumbled on a simple "old school" electroplating technique on a model building forum and thought "I'll give that a go"...
Here's what I did (I've left in the mistakes that were made so you don't have to go through them is you want to try this yourself)
Step 1
Wire brush off all the rust from the little contacts - pain in the arse - used pliers to hold parts and save fingers (!)
(This needs to be done a lot better than I did at first - see below)
Step 2
Believe seemingly daft / strange idea on model building forum about using old skool (bitch'n') electroplating techniques
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/showthread.php?t=2834
Assemble products needed
1X old margarine tub
1X bottle of iodine (apparently - well - according to the thread above this is hard to get hold of so he went through a process of heating vinegar and dissolving iodine impregnated salt because junkies do something with iodine - 'uck knows what - but hey in Holland I had no trouble getting hold of the stuff so read what you will into that)
1X bottle of vinegar (I'm using basic "cleaning" vinegar)
Some copper (this might turn out to be a problem because whilst I bought some copper pipe saddles and paid a price much more than I expected to pay for "copper" it doesn't necessarily mean I have bought copper - this could be some copperique {fake copper introduced by a baby boomer capitalist society fixated on extorting as much money out of people as possible})
Step 3
Whack it all in the margarine tub and give it a go
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If I end up with copper(ique) coated electrical terminals then I'll be a happy chap - I can then make the connections and spray the parts that won't be touching anything with a varnish to help them along too. (If I just remove the rust the parts will corrode really quickly and repairing the dynamo will be a waste of effort)
According to the thread on the model building forum I should see an effect by tomorrow morning. My slapdash whack in a bit of this and that approach might not be quite right so it could be a mega failure.
{It was a mega failure at first - see below}
I forgot to mention that this mixture apparently gives off hydrogen gas - so use in a well ventilated area
As part of my rebuild project => https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/1965-series-2a-station-wagon-in-holland.298002/ <= I've been finding ways to cope with the boredom of cleaning, derusting and painting.
If you've been following the thread you might have noticed that I zoom off onto tangents in search of something a bit whacky to do. One of these things is actually showing some signs of success!
#####
Story so far - took apart a dynamo to find all the parts are rusty
Now I couldn't find replacement parts so I figured I might be able to derust (again) and then find some way of preserving what I have.
The obvious thing to do is to go buy an electro-plating kit from Frosts (for example) and be done with it. However, I'm essentially a diesel owner (!) so a cheaper solution needed to be found.
I stumbled on a simple "old school" electroplating technique on a model building forum and thought "I'll give that a go"...
Here's what I did (I've left in the mistakes that were made so you don't have to go through them is you want to try this yourself)
Step 1
Wire brush off all the rust from the little contacts - pain in the arse - used pliers to hold parts and save fingers (!)
(This needs to be done a lot better than I did at first - see below)
Step 2
Believe seemingly daft / strange idea on model building forum about using old skool (bitch'n') electroplating techniques
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/showthread.php?t=2834
Assemble products needed
1X old margarine tub
1X bottle of iodine (apparently - well - according to the thread above this is hard to get hold of so he went through a process of heating vinegar and dissolving iodine impregnated salt because junkies do something with iodine - 'uck knows what - but hey in Holland I had no trouble getting hold of the stuff so read what you will into that)
1X bottle of vinegar (I'm using basic "cleaning" vinegar)
Some copper (this might turn out to be a problem because whilst I bought some copper pipe saddles and paid a price much more than I expected to pay for "copper" it doesn't necessarily mean I have bought copper - this could be some copperique {fake copper introduced by a baby boomer capitalist society fixated on extorting as much money out of people as possible})
Step 3
Whack it all in the margarine tub and give it a go
#########
If I end up with copper(ique) coated electrical terminals then I'll be a happy chap - I can then make the connections and spray the parts that won't be touching anything with a varnish to help them along too. (If I just remove the rust the parts will corrode really quickly and repairing the dynamo will be a waste of effort)
According to the thread on the model building forum I should see an effect by tomorrow morning. My slapdash whack in a bit of this and that approach might not be quite right so it could be a mega failure.
{It was a mega failure at first - see below}
I forgot to mention that this mixture apparently gives off hydrogen gas - so use in a well ventilated area
