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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] recharging Ferric Chloride?

2003-02-14 by Steve Greenfield

--- JanRwl@... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/14/2003 12:00:09 PM Central Standard Time,
> alienrelics@... writes:
>
>
> > I don't know what the voltage is that I use, I suppose it is
> > somewhere between 1 and 5 volts. I use a variable 12V supply
> and a
> > current meter. About a dozen nails wired together and spread
> out,
> > I run the voltage up until I have about 4 amps flowing. I
> leave
> > that on for half a day to charge up a 2 gallon stock.
> >
>
> are the nails +? Or, do you mean you used nails for both
> electrodes???
>
> Jan Rowland

He seemed to mean nails for both sides. It is in the part you
trimmed: "One terminal corrodes away (putting the Fe back), the
other terminal plates out copper..."

Steve Greenfield

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