For a while I've been toying with the idea of seeing if electrolysis could rescue some rusted things I've had lying around.
Today was the day. I bought some rebar and tried to connect it to an old battery charger I had. Unfortunately that kept reporting an overload. I opened it up and couldn't find a fuse. The funny thing is that while Googling for a solution, I found a post *that I had made* on another forum probably 12 years ago where I was describing that same overload. So I realized I've been keeping this thing all that time when I knew I couldn't get it to work.
So then I tried running the electrolysis with a small bench top DC power supply. It seemed to be working - bubbles and all, but when I checked an hour or so later, the thing appeared to be dead and it was pretty hot. This time I was able to find the fuse - yup, blown.
My guess is I was too liberal with the electrolyte.
Today was the day. I bought some rebar and tried to connect it to an old battery charger I had. Unfortunately that kept reporting an overload. I opened it up and couldn't find a fuse. The funny thing is that while Googling for a solution, I found a post *that I had made* on another forum probably 12 years ago where I was describing that same overload. So I realized I've been keeping this thing all that time when I knew I couldn't get it to work.
So then I tried running the electrolysis with a small bench top DC power supply. It seemed to be working - bubbles and all, but when I checked an hour or so later, the thing appeared to be dead and it was pretty hot. This time I was able to find the fuse - yup, blown.
My guess is I was too liberal with the electrolyte.