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Hi all

My brother in law has a stainless keg turned into a boiler, he has noticed he has a little surface rust inside on the bottom of the keg

What is the best way to remove this?

Vinegar run.

I'm sure there's a thread here somewhere about passivation of rust. Maybe search "passivation" see what comes up?

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

I’m no Boiley but the bloke who tigged up my boiler additions finished off with a ss pickling paste, perhaps that will help?

It would.
Playing with it should be done with extreme caution and full PPE, it is nasty stuff.
Essentially nitric and sulphamic acid or hydrofluric acid.
Either way dont get it on your skin as it dissolves bone.

Vinegar is safer and will do a bit for your issue.

scythe wrote:It would.
Playing with it should be done with extreme caution and full PPE, it is nasty stuff.
Essentially nitric and sulphamic acid or hydrofluric acid.
Either way dont get it on your skin as it dissolves bone.

Vinegar is safer and will do a bit for your issue.

:text-+1: yeap, he described it to me and was very cautious, so if you do use it yourself follow the sds and advice from BOC or wherever you buy it from.

Thank you all, i have some reading to do

Do a rum. If that cant clean it nothing will. :laughing-rolling:

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: Im hearing a lot about how someone is using under to clean cast iron camping ovens... Fantastic stuff, Molasses!

I know this is a very old thread, I got some of that pickling paste in my eye once, yes I had PPE on, being a stainless fabricator, using something everyday, you are bound to have “incidents” along the way.

It hurt, A LOT. A very very very long painful day in the hospital getting my eyeball flushed for over 6 hours. Stay away from the shit. I refuse to use it now. Manual polish or electro polish.

LikkerSheWillLoveIt wrote:I know this is a very old thread, I got some of that pickling paste in my eye once, yes I had PPE on, being a stainless fabricator, using something everyday, you are bound to have “incidents” along the way.

It hurt, A LOT. A very very very long painful day in the hospital getting my eyeball flushed for over 6 hours. Stay away from the shit. I refuse to use it now. Manual polish or electro polish.

You where lucky to get away with not getting very serious injury as well as being corrosive some of these substances are very toxic and with eyes if get serious injury to one eye that can also effect the other eye .

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I've since discovered the nicer was of doing this, 10% citric acid solution kept at 50-55 c for 1/2 hour. Going to do all my triclamps this way soon for giggles a few have been neglected and have some stains, the cheaper ones fair worse

good tip rc :handgestures-thumbupleft: