Gary,
 
I'll share an electrolysis tip:  You can use PLASTIC window screening to prevent
the workpiece from shorting to the anode.
(So, save those torn PLASTIC screen pieces from your window screen repair
efforts. This is the fate of Galoots, to accumulate a whole bunch of "useful
junk" that less adept people (SWMBO) see as a hoard of useless clutter.)

The good news about forgetting an electrolysis in progress is that it will not
attack the base metal, only the rust.
 
The drawback of using a steel container as both the container and the electrode
is of course that electrodes erode; a leak will ensue if you use it long enough.
 
When you get to be really advanced in the art of electrolysis, you'll be doing
things like electrolyzing the interiors of threaded holes with an iron wire
anode. The trick, of course, is to avoid shorts.
 
John Ruth 
 
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:33:47 -0400
> From: gtgrouch@r...
> To: oldtools@r...
> Subject: Fwd: RE: [OldTools] Latest  finds
> 
> This sounds like a great way to get even exposure - I found that if my 
> anode was small and the tool was large, places close to the anode 
> derusted quickly.
> 
> But if the anode were small, items like cast iron frying pans, had to be 
> turned after a while for even exposure.  I imagine that saw plates might 
> be the same.
> 
> Of course, if I forgot and left the pans in for two weeks, anode size 
> and placement didn't matter.
> 
> YMMV, Gary Katsanis
> Albion NY, USA
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: 	John Ruth 
> 
> 
> 
> --snip, snip--
> 
> . . . will respond well to electrolysis done in an old piece of steel pipe,
capped at one end. The pipe itself is the anode.
> 
> 
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