[AJD] Calcium Chloride in wheels, How to deal with it

Chris C jdnutinwa at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 8 09:40:34 PDT 2005


Keith and John,

    Now that sounds like just the sort of backyard
experiment I want to do!  I'm going to go look for a
suitable tank this weekend!  And perhaps some
directions...

                Chris
--- Keith Kinney <kkinney at herculesengines.com> wrote:

> I wonder if you would put it in a electrolysis bath
> if it wouldn't take the 
> calcium out of the rim.  It is my understanding this
> is the same process 
> marine archiologist use to get the salt out of
> cannons and other iron 
> objects that have been under the sea for hundreds of
> years.
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> At 04:20 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote:
> >Chris,
> >You can't neutralize the Calcium Chloride
> whatsoever, it's a salt, lots of 
> >it found in seawater.  The best you can hope for is
> to rinse the living 
> >daylights out of your rims, but I have been told
> that the calcium salt 
> >gets into the rust pits and aggravates a bad
> situation further.  I can 
> >imagine a sandblasting/grinding followed by
> tremendous washing and soaking 
> >if you can do it, wouldn't get most of the calcium
> salt washed out of the 
> >pores.  If after doing all that completely sealing
> out oxygen on both 
> >sides of the rim (to keep the oxygen away from the
> iron) using vinyl wash 
> >or phosphate treatment, priming, and painting would
> be the limits I would 
> >go to before buying new rims.
> >FWIW,
> >Steve
> >
> >Chris C <jdnutinwa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >howdy all,
> >
> >I have two tractors (4 rear wheels) that are filled
> with Calcium, I am 
> >planning on dismounting the tires, cleaning them
> out, sandblasitng the 
> >wheels, and putting new tubes in. I am wondering if
> anyone has ever used a 
> >chemical treatment of some sort to neutralize the
> Calcium Chloride? On my 
> >JD 40 I sandblasted the rear wheels and painted
> them as well as bought new 
> >tired and tubes, now, serveral years later, I can
> see signs of the calcium 
> >causing the wheels to rust. (This tractor has been
> stored inside) Anyone 
> >have the solution to getting rid of the calcium
> once and for all?
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
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