A lesson learned.

DO NOT try to clean aluminum parts in muriatic acid, and if you do watch it closely and check often!

I just had a rear wheel eaten. lol

bummer!i lost a good steel crank for a small block chevy soaking it in solvent one time,i dont know what the hell was in that solvent but it pitted the hell out of that crank.

That's a BIG bummer. How bad was it eaten?

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
(apologies for caps)
Now that has to suck! Lose both or just one?

Glass Beads! Glass Beads! Glass Beads!

For corroded bead/inside of rim. Wire brush, emery cloth, glass beads.

-Duck

i bought a cheap glass bead set up from mac. hand heald nothing special, for about 40 bucks. works great on little jobs.

wireman, i had the same thing. my solvent at work had water in it also (environmentally safe crap, don't even try using it) lost a hole set up 427 big block valves. man that was a bad day!!!!!! and a costly day!!!!

If I had been paying attention, then I could have warned you

The Kohler K series motors use aluminum rods riding directly on the crank, and when a rod siezes and leaves aluminum smeared all over the crank muratic acid is used to remove the aluminum without harming the crank.

Does a fine job eating the aluminim

Post edited by: steell, at: 2006/03/13 13:19

Thanksfully it was just one wheel. The rear one. I found some on ebay for like $30.00 per wheel. I'll be getting them bead blastes now for sure! haha

Yea, I learned the hard way too, but with a chrome clutch cover. I read on the internet that muriatic acid would remove the chrome. Well, it sure did, along with most of the cover!! Total disaster!!

that sucks, is that the stuff to remove rust? I had some acid stuff for removing rust from chrome(used it on the backs of the speedo and tach) and its green, it ate all the skin around my finger tips and made my finger nails soft.... hmmm I guess thats why it said to wear gloves? I have two spare rims so far, but $$$ to ship anywhere I guess. how does that home bead blast kit work? Does it require using any household items? My wife's still upset about my home paint baking over scenario!

Phosphoric acid is often used to remove rust, muratic acid is used to clean concrete (among other things).
Muratic acid is diluted hydrchloric acid, and I can tell you from experience that a single drop of hydrochloric acid will make the neatest round hole in the back of your hand
Rubber gloves, apron, and goggles are a really good idea when working with acids.

steell wrote:

Phosphoric acid is often used to remove rust, muratic acid is used to clean concrete (among other things).
Muratic acid is diluted hydrchloric acid, and I can tell you from experience that a single drop of hydrochloric acid will make the neatest round hole in the back of your hand
Rubber gloves, apron, and goggles are a really good idea when working with acids.

Oh I can second that! We use pure hydrochloric to clean metal when we are soldering it in HVAC applications. lol