Weldable, small hardware?

[matthewsx]

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!

This is true, in my old shop I had this happen so moved it outside to the shed.

John

 

[akjeff]

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

Stainless is a good way to go. And if you use a filler rod like ER309 or ER312, you can weld stainless to stainless, or stainless to mild/carbon steel.