Pickling |
Zinc Silicate Crystalline Glaze Pottery A chronicle of my recent progress and a way for me to keep it straight in my head! |
2-5-10 Ian sent me a pot to soak in the pickle. It has such a small neck it did not fill with water and floated in the bath. I had to force it down under the surface to get it to wet all around. In the "After 1 hour" shot you can see I really didn't have it fully immersed.
Before | After 15 seconds | After 1 hour | After 12 hours |
Dark and light halos |
After ~12 hours (overnight) in cold (50F) pickle. |
Before photo from Ian |
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After 2 1/2 hours the pickle had taken on a very deep blue green color. The pot began to leak and the setup was drained. It appears the pickle dissolved a chrome plating on the pot and ate through the welds of the stainless steel pot. The pickle was put in plastic buckets and more pots were soaked overnight, in "cooling" pickle.
I originally followed the recipe on the jug but found that even a pot filled with water floated. This is due to the high specific gravity of the pickle. I endded up adding water to thin it down so the water filled pot would sit on the bottom og hte cooker. The recipe I ended up with is 4960g salt + 14500g water = ~18.5 liters (~4.9 gal.) of solution .
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Ingredient | F413 Frit | Zinc Oxide | Silica | Titania | Red Iron Oxide | Black Copper Oxide | Red Copper Oxide |
Dried Weight | 4.9 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
Adjusted Weight* | 4.7 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
% Dissolved | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 16 |
* Weight adjusted down by 0.2 grams believed to be due to pickle salt in filter.
Rio Pickle™ for Non-Ferrous Metals
pickle
1 [pik-uhl] Show IPA
noun, verb,
-led, -ling.
Metallurgy. an acid
or other chemical solution in which metal objects are dipped to remove oxide
scale or other adhering substances.
A chemical solution, such as an acid, that is used as a bath to remove scale and oxides from the surface of metals before plating or finishing.
I'm using sour salt (citric acid) and so far it's doing the trick for me. It's still an acid, but considerably easier to get along with.
I use 1 cup of vinegar with 2 tbs pickling salt. It works very well on
argentium silver - almost instant if it's hot enough.
What is the recipe to make your own pickle? I know it uses ph down, but I don't know ....
Ph down is sodium bisulfate.
......sodium bisulfate which releases sulfuric acid when mixed with water......they do not tell you just how really dangerous it is........when it gets hot there are fumes that arise when you lift the lid that can ruin your lungs, mouth and eyes..........got a 2 mm drop in my left palm.......has been 3 months now and it has almost covered my whole palm and is very painful.......Baking soda paste is the only thing that gives me any relief.
Tim McCreight's
Complete Metalsmith as being used as a pickle.
Looking at Kingsley
Norths website, they sell sodium bisulfate
....how much sodium bisulfate it takes to make a pickle bath?
...
if you use a heated bath you do not need to use as much as a heated solution will be more aggressive. I use about 2 cups to 20 gallons of water, and add a little to recharge it from time to time. I dissolve it into hot water in a well ventilated space as a noxious gas is released.
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Phil Hamling
376 County Route 1
Warwick, NY, USA 10990