Salvage Carbide Tools with Lye | SCIENCE!

I don't know the first thing about machining but it's nice to hang out in the friend simulator with you thank you

Chemist here, just to clarify some things about the lye, aluminum, tin and copper. Aluminum reacts with the lye itself and it's quite fast,hot and vigorous. Copper and tin do not react with the lye itself. They react with the oxygen dissolved in the water. The lye then dissolves the oxide that forms and exposes the metal beneath, enabling further attack. This happens at a snail's pace compared to the reaction with aluminum. Iron does not "react with the lye" because the oxide is insoluble in lye, hell some iron oxides are barely soluble in acids too.

Remember folks; If you're not part of the solution, you are the precipitate.

Legend has it that he is still trying to pick that aluminium away from the tool..

That pick removed precisely zero aluminum.

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Now that's some magical science. Not only did it clean up and sharpen that their file. It converted it from a good old American flat file to a fancy dance farmers file.

Just a chemistry note: always add the NaOH to the water not the other way around.

Vinegar is good to have on hand when doing this, will neutralize caustic burns as well as your fluids before they go down the drain.

Stripped anodized parts with Lye a number of times and it always worked like a charm. Great video once again.

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