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Well, just spent about an hour googling options for cleaning up SS after soldering or welding and oh boy....
From what I've found, the existing paste/gel/liquid pickle for SS (that's been in use for years) is pretty nasty stuff if you aren't careful. It contains really strong acids and has all sorts of safety and handling cautions. All in all not something I'd really want to mess with if I don't need to. Interestingly you can order it from McMaster and get it tomorrow without question? (I didn't proceed all the way to checkout to really find out).
I also found that there several other processes that are not as bio and eco dangerous, but these seem aimed at much bigger scale production cases.
Finally, there was one "eco safe" pickle in promoted in a video - but the product appears to unobtainim and it looked like the company was in Bopal (ha / yikes!).
So in short what are your experiences with using the dangerous traditional paste/gels and or do you know of and preferably use something a little less toxic?
From what I've found, the existing paste/gel/liquid pickle for SS (that's been in use for years) is pretty nasty stuff if you aren't careful. It contains really strong acids and has all sorts of safety and handling cautions. All in all not something I'd really want to mess with if I don't need to. Interestingly you can order it from McMaster and get it tomorrow without question? (I didn't proceed all the way to checkout to really find out).
I also found that there several other processes that are not as bio and eco dangerous, but these seem aimed at much bigger scale production cases.
Finally, there was one "eco safe" pickle in promoted in a video - but the product appears to unobtainim and it looked like the company was in Bopal (ha / yikes!).
So in short what are your experiences with using the dangerous traditional paste/gels and or do you know of and preferably use something a little less toxic?