[SEL] Milker

[Elden DuRand]

Steve:

That Sandwich looks like a good candidate for electrolysis.  Use a cheap 12 Volt battery charger for the current source.  Make the block the negative terminal and suspend a hunk of scrap in the hopper, insulated from it.  Now, fill the hopper with warm water and, while stirring, add the electrolyte )one of several) until the current stops rising.

Go away and leave it for a while.  I'll bet that if you are patient, it will be clean as a whistle.

Have a look here:
http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand/Otherstuff/Electrolysis.html

Take care - Elden
edurand at iglou.com
http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On
>  Behalf Of Steve Gray
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:23 AM
> To: The SEL email discussion list
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Milker
> 
> 
> Hi Tim -
> 
>   Luckily, this one does turn over, albeit, with 
> what feels like pure 
> STP in the crankcase. I already see the dreaded 
> little head bolts 
> looking up at me in the hopper! I can just about 
> imagine how much fun 
> that's going to be. The exhaust valve is stuck, 
> but everything else 
> seems to move anyway. For all I know at this 
> point, the rod could be in 
> more than one piece or the piston could have a 
> hole burned in it! ;-) 
>   Anyway, I've got a month plus of Hot-Air engine 
> display clean up work 
> to do before I can get to the Sandwich.
> 
> -- 
> Steve Gray