- 96oz distilled H2O (I use purified drinking water, $? it comes to my house, like $6 a month)
- 2 tblspn manganese dioxide $6 for 5lbs from the pottery store
- 1 steel wool bisquit, home depot $3 maybe for the pack
- 1/2-3/4c Jasco prep and primer, $7 bottle Home Depot
- WD40, $?, buy it anywhere
- black wire, $2 for 50'(?) roll at Home Depot
- stainless steel pot, $cheap at the nex
- stainless stir stick/skewer, $?, no clue, they're sitting around the junk drawers
As for the recipe, well, that's something you'll have to fiddle with getting right for your technique. Phophasting is pretty easy and flexible, but it is finiky about contanimated solution. And the parts must be steel. You can't do metals that are ferrous, aluminum or that type.
DISCLAIMER:
WEAR GLOVES, APRON AND GLASSES WHEN DOING THIS. DON'T COME CRYING TO ME IF YOU RUIN SOMETHING. USE TEST PIECES UNTIL YOU GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT, THEN USE YOUR GOOD PART. BE SAFE. DON'T USE YOUR WIFE'S POTS. DO THIS WHEN SHE ISN'T HOME. DON'T SNIFF THE FUMES, THEY ARE TOXIC. DON'T BE DUMB. POUR ACIDS INTO WATER.
Prep your part: degrease, remove the blue, sandblast/paper down to bare metal..degrease, don't touch with your hands. The surface needs to be a little textured, the particles stick better. Tie up your part with the black wire so that you can hang it in the solution. You don't want it sitting on the bottom. Then, I like to wash in hot Dawn tap water, then rinse in boiling purified water, then drop into the boiling solution.
For the solution: pour the purified water, scoop in the manganese dioxide into the steel pot, turn on the burner to med/high. Wash your steel wool in hot Dawn water, GET ALL THE SOAP OUT! Then drop into your hot boiling water to rinse. Pour your Jasco into the solution pot. Drop in steel wool when the solution is hot and steaming, before boiling. Let the wool in there a few minutes to fizz and bubble, then drop your parts in. Watch the clock. I like toleave my parts in for at least 20 minutes and until the steel wool is about gone. When they're ready, take the parts out and dip them again in the hot boiling water to rinse. Take them out and set them on newspaper. Spray them immediately with WD40. Let them sit a bit, then wiped of the parts with a paper/towel. Some residue might come off, that's fine. Then oil up with gun oil.
Different solutions vary on the cooking time and the color of park. This recipe gives a good dark color becuse of the manganese dioxide. If you want a lighter color or grey, use less/no mang dioxide. Instead drop in drilled-out pennies for zinc.
- 2 tblspn manganese dioxide $6 for 5lbs from the pottery store
- 1 steel wool bisquit, home depot $3 maybe for the pack
- 1/2-3/4c Jasco prep and primer, $7 bottle Home Depot
- WD40, $?, buy it anywhere
- black wire, $2 for 50'(?) roll at Home Depot
- stainless steel pot, $cheap at the nex
- stainless stir stick/skewer, $?, no clue, they're sitting around the junk drawers
As for the recipe, well, that's something you'll have to fiddle with getting right for your technique. Phophasting is pretty easy and flexible, but it is finiky about contanimated solution. And the parts must be steel. You can't do metals that are ferrous, aluminum or that type.
DISCLAIMER:
WEAR GLOVES, APRON AND GLASSES WHEN DOING THIS. DON'T COME CRYING TO ME IF YOU RUIN SOMETHING. USE TEST PIECES UNTIL YOU GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT, THEN USE YOUR GOOD PART. BE SAFE. DON'T USE YOUR WIFE'S POTS. DO THIS WHEN SHE ISN'T HOME. DON'T SNIFF THE FUMES, THEY ARE TOXIC. DON'T BE DUMB. POUR ACIDS INTO WATER.
Prep your part: degrease, remove the blue, sandblast/paper down to bare metal..degrease, don't touch with your hands. The surface needs to be a little textured, the particles stick better. Tie up your part with the black wire so that you can hang it in the solution. You don't want it sitting on the bottom. Then, I like to wash in hot Dawn tap water, then rinse in boiling purified water, then drop into the boiling solution.
For the solution: pour the purified water, scoop in the manganese dioxide into the steel pot, turn on the burner to med/high. Wash your steel wool in hot Dawn water, GET ALL THE SOAP OUT! Then drop into your hot boiling water to rinse. Pour your Jasco into the solution pot. Drop in steel wool when the solution is hot and steaming, before boiling. Let the wool in there a few minutes to fizz and bubble, then drop your parts in. Watch the clock. I like toleave my parts in for at least 20 minutes and until the steel wool is about gone. When they're ready, take the parts out and dip them again in the hot boiling water to rinse. Take them out and set them on newspaper. Spray them immediately with WD40. Let them sit a bit, then wiped of the parts with a paper/towel. Some residue might come off, that's fine. Then oil up with gun oil.
Different solutions vary on the cooking time and the color of park. This recipe gives a good dark color becuse of the manganese dioxide. If you want a lighter color or grey, use less/no mang dioxide. Instead drop in drilled-out pennies for zinc.
