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Offline Robert Bearfield

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another new project, can this work?
« on: September 21, 2014, 08:02:13 PM »
would a 55 gallon metal drum work? hang the cast iron from a wooden 2 X 4. put the electrodes on the appropriate places.
what are the pros and cons? thanks.   bob
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Re: another new project, can this work?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2014, 08:06:43 PM »
A plain steel drum may/will become the anode and breach very quickly.  Better to use a non-conductive container, like plastic...


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Re: another new project, can this work?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2014, 09:06:44 PM »
thank you.
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Re: another new project, can this work?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2014, 09:43:29 PM »
We had a guy on here years ago, and he want out and got a brand new shiny metal garbage can and built an electro with the garbage can as the donor piece, just like Cheryl said the whole thing started leaking and he had a mess on his hands. And he took a picture of the eat up garbage can and used it as his picture, I forget what you call that word of what you use here on the forum, a picture used to be a picture, now we call it something else. At any rate we got a lot of fun out of it and he was good natured about it. Of course if he hadn't told it on himself we would have never known.  ;D ;D

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Re: another new project, can this work?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2014, 09:54:49 PM »
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Re: another new project, can this work?
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2014, 10:15:01 PM »
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Yes, that.  ;D ;D