Evaporust goo!?!?

[Nutfarmer]

Just don’t soak dividers or calipers with the spring steel band at the top in evaporust. The spring steel will fall apart in pieces. Some thing about hydrogen embrittlement. What a way to ruin a nice pair of dividers.

 

[mmcmdl]

I left a 3 jaw chuck in for over a year . Forgot all about it and it came out looking like that . Haven't touched it since .

 

[woodchucker]

Just don’t soak dividers or calipers with the spring steel band at the top in evaporust. The spring steel will fall apart in pieces. Some thing about hydrogen embrittlement. What a way to ruin a nice pair of dividers.

nope.. that's a wives tail. I did a test when mmcmdl said that. No change. I was able to bend the spring steel without it snapping like Dave thought would happen.

 

[mmcmdl]

nope.. that's a wives tail. I did a test when mmcmdl said that. No change. I was able to bend the spring steel without it snapping like Dave thought would happen.

I ruined dividers and shim sets in the past . They completely fell apart . I should say feeler gage sets .

 

[woodchucker]

yea, no. I'm calling you out on that one. I don't have evapo rust right now. But I'm not buying that. I don't think it was evapo rust.

I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem right. Vinegar yea, Evapo Rust.. no.

 

[mmcmdl]

I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem right. Vinegar yea, Evapo Rust.. no.

It was WD-40 Rust Soak .

 

[Nutfarmer]

yea, no. I'm calling you out on that one. I don't have evapo rust right now. But I'm not buying that. I don't think it was evapo rust.

I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem right. Vinegar yea, Evapo Rust.. no.

I know it seams odd , but I was not happy pulling out pieces of a divider out of evaporust. It was just the spring band at the top that went to pieces. The rest of the divider was fine. No story.