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awemawson:
I still had some of the original fixer that I'd diluted about 1:3 which had light yellow flocculations in it. Oh well I thought lets do another test with it.

I sand blasted a bit of scrap, and popped it in having warmed the solution to 75 deg C and sure enough a nice black finish. So I carried on and blacked the rest, and wiped them down with Shell Ensis rust proofing oil

awemawson:
Now it's important to stir the solution, so I had the bits suspended on some iron wire and was jiggling them. The last part to do was the nut, jiggle jiggle,  :bang: CRACK  :bang:

I'd knocked the side out of the beaker - quite a neat hole! A gush of the diluted fixer shot out, over my lab coat and jeans leg onto the floor.

I quick bit of dashing around mopping up then another dash towards the washing machine to strip off and wash the chemicals of. Now you need to understand that our 'laundry' is a building adjacent to the house but not connected - there was I bereft of trousers, and guests due any moment.  :bugeye:

Another quick dash into the house passed undetected fortunately and decency was restored  :lol:

Pete.:
Blimey, it sounds like you were lucky the guests didn't catch you with your little thing out :D

mattinker:

--- Quote from: awemawson on October 27, 2013, 08:26:18 AM ---I still had some of the original fixer that I'd diluted about 1:3 which had light yellow flocculations in it. Oh well I thought lets do another test with it.

I sand blasted a bit of scrap, and popped it in having warmed the solution to 75 deg C and sure enough a nice black finish. So I carried on and blacked the rest, and wiped them down with Shell Ensis rust proofing oil

--- End quote ---

Tell us more about this experiment, it looks interesting. How long did it take and how resistant is it?

Regards, Matthew

Pete.:
I was thinking the same, but no doubt his 7 yr old bottle of fixer contains some 'dangerous chemical' that's banned nowadays. It'll probably turn all your parts pink or some pastel blue or something....

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