Don't place your nuts (& bolts) in Lime-A-Way

middle.road

Granite Stoopid...
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I was sorting and trying to organized all my fasteners last week. Had a couple of boxes of goodies from estate sales.
There was a jam jar full of brass nuts a screws and it was all gunky and corroded. Not sure what was all over them.
Not thinking it through I tossed some Lime-A-Way into the jar and let it sit overnight.
hmmmm.... Turned 'em copper! -hehe
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Alchemy, turning lead into gold or brass into copper and get rich quick. Like magic!

Roy
 
active ingedient is phosphoric acid
 
Prolly ate the zinc and left the copper.
 
It's only on the surface, I polished and turned a flat on a head of one of the screws.
I'll not be polishing the rest... :grin: They'll go in drawer and probably still be there at my estate sale. . .
 
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