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Leaching - Is circulation in pipes needed?
When leaching Nickel, does the chemical (nitric acid) have to circulate through the pipes/parts or can the parts simply soak in a full tank of nitric?
Melissa Burnett
- Springfield, OR
2002
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Are you stripping the nickel off the tank? If so, I would at least run the pump for a brief period (5 minutes)to get the nitric in there, as there could be nickel in the pipes. If you are leaching a new tank prior to a bath makeup, just get the nitric in contact with any virgin plastic. Run the pump for a couple minutes, then shut it off for the night.
Kevin Keating
- Rochester, New York
2002
I can see that some readers believe you are talking about stripping an electroless nickel tank and its piping, whereas I felt you were trying to strip plated parts--so you might want to clarify.
But assuming you are talking about parts, I haven't done it, so I can't really say; but I have done somewhat similar things and I believe the answer is going to be empirical rather than scientific. I suspect you'll have to jiggle or agitate the parts but won't have to actually pipe them up and make solution flow through them.
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2002
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