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Max Cox

December 18, 2008 07:50AM

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Richard W. Wrote:
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> While baking soda will work it works better with
> Arm & Hammer Washing Soda.
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> Richard

You are correct. I used baking soda because that was handy. What you really want is to make the solution very alkaline[high pH]. What you want to avoid are chlorides[salt]. I have also used trisodium phosphate[TSP] and it works well.

Max

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Question, Are #4 scrubbies used to remove rust on Steam Locomotives?	mschur,488	December 08, 2008 03:41PM
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Re: Question, Are #4 scrubbies used to remove rust on Steam Locomotives?	survivingworldsteam	December 09, 2008 03:32PM
Re: Question, Are #4 scrubbies used to remove rust on Steam Locomotives?	Max Cox	December 11, 2008 07:35AM
Re: Question, Are #4 scrubbies used to remove rust on Steam Locomotives?	doodlebug	December 11, 2008 05:03PM
Re: Question, Are #4 scrubbies used to remove rust on Steam Locomotives?	Richard W.	December 15, 2008 12:32PM
Re: Question, Are #4 scrubbies used to remove rust on Steam Locomotives?	Max Cox	December 18, 2008 07:50AM

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