[Jewelry making - Article 00055] - Re: [Orchid] Pickle query/pricing

[Douglas Turet]

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>     P.S. - When you run out of safety pickle, try buying good old PH
>     Minus (pool and spa chemical) or food-grade citric acid.  Both
>     work at least as well, are safer, and are significantly cheaper!

    Hi Karen, A few questions about that "food-grade" citric acid you'd
    mentioned... Does it behave similarly to nitric, in terms of both
    pickling action/time and results? Also, do the same laws (i.e. using
    copper-enriched pickle as a plating bath by adding an iron tool)
    also apply with the citric, or are they caused/created by the
    nitric, only? Finally, are there differences in handling the two,
    either in day-to-day usage or in disposal? (I'm really curious about
    this...) 

    Many thanks, in advance, Doug 

Douglas Turet, GJ
Lapidary Artist, Designer & Goldsmith
Turet Design
P.O. Box 162
Arlington, MA 02476
Tel. (617) 325-5328
eFax (928) 222-0815
anotherbrightidea AT hotmail.com

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