Restoring antique porcelain light fixtures. Electrolysis and hydrogen peroxide. Steampunk lamp build

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[@somedudeRyan]

Love these ancient electrical bits

[@VintageAnything]

My new nickname for you Rinoa Edison ❤

[@VintageAnything]

Yay! Its snowing outside here in ohio so glad i get to watch this now thank you

[@Progrocker70]

I have a lot of old porcelain components. I have some porcelain fuse blocks for screw in and cartridge fuses and some old knife switches with slate backs from an old factory. When I rewired my house, I saved some of the old cloth wiring that still had good intact insulation. They used to tin the copper wires back then because all splices were soldered. Solder, then wrap with rubber friction tape then regular cloth tape. Then wire nuts replaced all of this.

[@RinoaL]

Yeah I just now realized this winter that all the old wire was tinned, it solders so well.

[@KeritechElectronics]

Lovely old switch and lamp holder, and the antique bulb is just wonderful. You really could use an ultrasonic cleaner, they work wonders when restoring vintage parts. I could try electrochemical rust removal myself someday. Be careful with using grease close to the contacts. It probably won't be a problem here, but if it was a good few amperes, the arcing could start a fire. I definitely wouldn't want to have any exposed mains contacts.

[@RinoaL]

This grease is designed for electrical contacts though

[@HMPirates]

Contact adhesive. Cheap and good. Use it all the time to connect dissimilar materials all the time.

[@Artcurus]

Order the cloth covered wire from snakehead vintage. I restore old radios and Mother's Chrome polish seems to work.

[@Artcurus]

on Bakelite

[@jamesh646]

What power supply are you using 🤔

[@RinoaL]

Thats for an upcoming video

[@MrBo-sg6hu]

I would use some 3m spray glue for the felt. You don’t have an auto darkening welding helmet? They have come down a lot on price from when they first came out. You will drive yourself nuts trying to fit up something with a tig; your mig welder would be alot more forgiving. It adds metal right from the initial start. Your tig actually has to melt the base metal before you can add filler. True, you can fuse flat pieces together without filler, but you have more metal to work with, and you dont lose the fit up like when you were trying to build the thin wire cage.

[@RinoaL]

I've been using the same welding helmet I got on my 10th birthday all this time. I did order a nos Optrel helmet but it doesnt have the auto-darkening feature, again I'll just have to put a shade 10 in it. Also this wire was stainless steel, no mig welding this. Ive had good luck with tig welding just the metal in place but the issue is I have to fucking see to begin with. Really pissed with my workshop lighting

[@petermead8457]

You should use pva wood glue

[@Peanutchex]

❤❤❤

[@MrBo-sg6hu]

You can mig stainless with carbon steel wire all day, works good. (Assuming a non critical structural application) The downside is will not have the corrosion resistance at the weld. You can also run stainless mig wire with c25 or trimix gas with good results.

[@RinoaL]

Honestly I've never tried it, so that's good to know.

[@Tag-Traeumer]

I would not use electrolysis on steel parts because of the risk of HYDROGEN EMRITTLEMENT. (Strange that this isn't an issue on KZbin.) The smallest amounts of atomic hydrogen (formed in large quantities at the cathode) irretrievably ruin steel parts; high-strength steel is particularly vulnerable. Only immediate heat treatment would drive out the hydrogen before it penetrated too deeply into the metal structure.

[@RinoaL]

That wouldnt matter unless you are using it for a a structural part or engine cylinder. Even then I havent found any evidence that electrilysis can lead to embrittlement. I wouldnt think it would lead to anything near what you get when welding.

[@Tag-Traeumer]

@@RinoaL Unfortunately, the phenomenon of hydrogen embrittlement is not widely known, but it should be. On the other hand, there are thousands of videos on KZbin in which electrolysis is recommended for rust removal. That is fatal. I know hydrogen embrittlement from my job, which involved galvanized springs that have to be subjected to heat treatment immediately so as not to break later because the hydrogen atoms have already penetrated too deeply. When you search for hydrogen embrittlement online, you realize the magnitude of the problem. Never more atomic hydrogen is produced than at the cathode during electrolysis.

[@RinoaL]

Hydrogen embrittlement is a well-known thing, but i still have yet to find evidence that electrolysis in plain water causes hydrogen imbrittlement. Looking at google it only happens when metal is deposited, as in electrochemical reactions, my using electrolysis with just water doesn't lead to any metal be layed down, only removed. I still don't see evidence for your mental leap with plain electrolysis leading to hydrogen emrbittlement, like it does with acids and such. The resources I saw online specify that it happens when electroplating, or using electrolysis with strong acids or electrolytes, which is different.

[@Tag-Traeumer]

@ During the galvanic deposition of zinc, small traces of hydrogen are formed on the cathode, including atomic hydrogen, which penetrates into metals. The same applies to welding when moisture comes into contact with the melt. During electrolysis with increased voltage (such as for rust removal), much larger amounts of hydrogen gas are produced and of course also larger amounts of atomic hydrogen. More voltage = more hydrogen = more atomic hydrogen = failing workpieces = defects, accidents or disasters. The fact that you cannot find this information directly on the Internet is because hydrogen embrittlement is not a problem with electrode material for electrolysis because electrodes are hardly subjected to mechanical stress. But high-strength, tempered and hardened steels do, especially springs. Even tiny traces of hydrogen caused bolts to break, an insidious phenomenon.

[@RinoaL]

@ you are in agreement with me but you are misunderstanding me. The information you stated is extremely common to know, but you aren't understanding the later part I mention. I am not adding zinc with electrolysis. I am not adding any metal, I am only removing. Adding metal is the key factor, not electric current.

[@Evokvn]

7th

[@RobertSchmitt-u7l]

Thats the best way to mount projects and tools. Where does one find heavy guage braided cotton wire?