[modeleng] Re: pickling acids suppliers

  • From: "dud.one" <dud.one@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:11:34 -0000

doing a search came up with this company
http://www.thechemicalshop.com/

so it may help others looking around too

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:52 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: pickling acids suppliers


> White vinegar is acetic acid, and of higher concentration than the brown
> sort and is also widely available. Would that be any good for pickling at
> all? I know that the vinegar in sauce and ketchup cleans copper coins up
> beautifully from when I was a kid.
>
> Tony Wells.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Dayman" <jeffdayman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:23 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: pickling acids suppliers
>
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Can't help you with an exact source, but can give some ideas as to who
>> uses
>> H2SO4 commercially.
>>
>> -forklift truck battery service and sales firms
>> -some car garages still have it for car batteries
>> -stove/fireplace foundries, sheetmetal shops and ironworks use it for
>> cleaning castings and steel sheet
>> -chemical supply firms should have it.
>>
>> On this list I remember pickling has come up several times and citric 
>> acid
>> was mentioned as easier to get than sulfuric, and works nearly as well.
>> Brewers and brewery/winemaking supply firms will have citric acid.
>>
>> Good luck, Jeff Dayman Waterloo Ontario Canada
>
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