[meteorite-list] Preservation of iron meteorite

[McCartney Taylor]

Jorn, I saw this posted by some coinshooters to clean metal. Will  
this work for iron?  Haven't tried it.  I suspect with some chem 
tweaks this  may be the best your average collector could build 
affordably to treat  irons. 

"When building a electrolysis machine to clean metal, a  
better transformer to use is an old AT type computer  
power supply not a ATX power supply just cut a yellow  
and a black wire from one of the four wire plug strip and  
attach clips. Yellow is POSITIVE (+), Black is ground.  
In a plastic tub mix tap water, a tablespoon of salt per 8 oz  
of water, attach yellow lead to a stainless steel piece put in  
water on one side of the bucket attach black lead to the  
metal find, put in the water on other side of bucket.  
Do not let the leads touch each other, turn on the power  
and it will bubble give it a little time and the dirt and rust  
will come off find and be on the stainless metal. The power  
supply does not over heat and cleans faster than small  
power supplies "