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Nitric acid etching




I wish to mark mild steel using nitric acid. What can I use to coat the steel before scratching in my design.

Jim Morris
- Somerset, England
2002


2002

Jim,

Presumeably you'd want to easily remove the 'coating' (but 'ee didn't zay zo, did 'ee naow!)

Consider ordinary tar or pitch. That you can remove with gas (petrol). Don't consider 2 component paints as they are a problem and a half to remove! For a greater accuracy in marking consider lacquer ... borrow some ladies nail varnish and try it out ... easily removeable with acetone ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] Flammable! .

Maybe (I dunno) you'd have better success with muriatic acid ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] than nitric.

Regards to Zomerset !

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Freeman Newton [deceased]
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April 21, 2012. R.I.P. old friend).




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