{"id":4819,"date":"2011-05-14T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:55:33","slug":"electrolysis-tank-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2011\/05\/electrolysis-tank-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrolysis Tank Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tank on my 550 looks clean from the outside but it had a lot of crusty rust inside. I&#8217;ve used muriatic acid to clean tanks before but I wanted to try another method. So, I talked to my buddy Ryan who is a material scientist of sorts for a living and he gave me the run down of how to do electrolysis to remove rust. <\/p>\n<p><em>Supplies:<\/em><br \/>\nsalt<br \/>\nmetal<br \/>\nwater<br \/>\nelectrical tape<br \/>\nDC power<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning_bw-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tank Cleaning_bw-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4817\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tape the petcock shut.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning_bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tank Cleaning_bw\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4818\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dilute roughly 2 cups of salt in water and pour it in the tank and continue filling the tank until it&#8217;s almost full. <\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning_bw-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tank Cleaning_bw-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4815\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Connect the positive to the tank and the negative to the metal bar and cook it between 6 AMPs and 8 AMPs for 30 to 45 minutes. If it&#8217;s too low in AMP&#8217;s add more salt and if it&#8217;s too much dilute the mixture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Tank-Cleaning_bw-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tank Cleaning_bw-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4816\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This process worked great for removing the chunky rust so I suggest doing this and then a quick acid wash to finish the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tank on my 550 looks clean from the outside but it had a lot of crusty rust inside. I&#8217;ve used muriatic acid to clean tanks before but I wanted to try another method. So, I talked to my buddy Ryan who is a material scientist of sorts for a living and he gave me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/9041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}