Weldable, small hardware?

[Reddinr]

I am looking for weldable steel hardware (washers, nuts, hinges). Most weldable stuff that I can find is bigger than I need. For example, I need #6 or #8 flat washers or D-washers, hinges 1"W x 1/2" tabs or smaller etc. I have sanded off the zinc plating on normal hardware but that is pretty time consuming. It would be great to be able to get a kit of various washers etc. I only need a few at at time.

Has anyone seen that sort of thing?

 

[Ed ke6bnl]

Any thought of dropping the hardware in pool acid and neutralizing in baking soda. Outdoors only. Then do your thing

 

[Reddinr]

Never thought of that. Could give it a try.

 

[Weldingrod1]

Just get some stainless steel... welds just fine!

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[Reddinr]

I was wondering about stainless.

 

[GeneT45]

Any thought of dropping the hardware in pool acid and neutralizing in baking soda. Outdoors only. Then do your thing

This is what I do. $10 for 2 gal of Muriatic acid at Home Despot and it removes galvanizing in short order. I remove the parts and hit 'em with some light oil or WD to stop the reaction and prevent flash rusting, which *will* happen if you let it.

GsT

 

[tominboise]

I also just drop zinc hardware in white vinegar. It removes the plating after soaking awhile.

 

[WobblyHand]

This is what I do. $10 for 2 gal of Muriatic acid at Home Despot and it removes galvanizing in short order. I remove the parts and hit 'em with some light oil or WD to stop the reaction and prevent flash rusting, which *will* happen if you let it.

GsT

Keep that acid away from your shop and tools. It will rust them. The acid fumes through the plastic bottle. How do I know? Experienced it twice, once in my garage, and once in my father's garage.

I had some muriatic acid in my garage some years back and was wondering why things seemed to be rusting a lot more than usual. Got rid of the acid from there, and the rusting stopped. The plastic bottle was intact and the cap was on tight - it didn't matter, the acid vapors got out anyways.

In my father's garage, the plastic gallon bottle of HCl (muriatic acid) somewhat disintegrated near the top, leaving a nice big fat hole to escape out of. Everything within a 5 foot radius was severely rusted. I found this this fall when cleaning out the house.

Does a great job on removing zinc though!

 

[GeneT45]

Keep that acid away from your shop and tools. It will rust them. The acid fumes through the plastic bottle. How do I know? Experienced it twice, once in my garage, and once in my father's garage.

I had some muriatic acid in my garage some years back and was wondering why things seemed to be rusting a lot more than usual. Got rid of the acid from there, and the rusting stopped. The plastic bottle was intact and the cap was on tight - it didn't matter, the acid vapors got out anyways.

In my father's garage, the plastic gallon bottle of HCl (muriatic acid) somewhat disintegrated near the top, leaving a nice big fat hole to escape out of. Everything within a 5 foot radius was severely rusted. I found this this fall when cleaning out the house.

Does a great job on removing zinc though!

I've heard that warning, but never had an issue with it. I *do* perform my soaking outdoors, so I never have an open container in the shop, but the sealed containers haven't been a problem for me. That said, I have a pretty large shop and I store it in the "dirty" area and not near my machines or metrology.

GsT Spell-check (a most useless invention) thinks I misspelled "metrology"...

 

[Reddinr]

Thanks all. I'm going stainless for my little project but it is good to know about stripping galvanize for future.