removing Zinc from chain???
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06/30/14 11:56 AM
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I can't find any chain around the store's locality that sell good welded made in USA chain that hasn't been deeper in Zinc or Chrome. I don't want to use that bright shinning chain on my traps. I've tried painting over the zinc chain, it won't hold the paint past first catch. Pant rubs right off. So I'm asking other trapping brothers and sisters, if they have a way that they known to remove the Zinc or Chrome from chain? Thank You Scott Barger
Member of Oregon Trappers acct. N.T.A. Oregon fur takers. N.R.A. oregon hunters acct. United Ironworkers #8378
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/30/14 12:10 PM
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SnareLine
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Sure, just put it in a bucket of Hydrochloric acid...will dissolve it like alka seltzer.
Or, electrolysis it off...
Search YouTube for Home Zinc Plating, and use the zinc plated chain as the source of the zinc (I forget if it's the positive or negative side).
Could take a really long time, though, and you may have to do it one link at a time...
Edit: Beaten!
Hiding our humane dispatches doesn't keep the Antis from showing their own gruesome ones. In this 1 sided story, who will the public believe, then?
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/30/14 12:17 PM
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alaska viking
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"Made it two years not being censored"
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Vinegar is easy, safe, and effective. Just cover the chain with it in any old plastic container. It won't take but around 24 hours.
Made it almost 3 years without censor!
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
[Re: alaska viking]
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06/30/14 12:39 PM
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The Count
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Vinegar is easy, safe, and effective. Just cover the chain with it in any old plastic container. It won't take but around 24 hours. x2 Done it many times! ~ADC~
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
[Re: cattrapper]
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06/30/14 12:40 PM
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Thanks everyone, Please keep the ideas coming. Where would I going muratic acid to buy, what type of store? I was guessing auto parts store? But don't know?
Member of Oregon Trappers acct. N.T.A. Oregon fur takers. N.R.A. oregon hunters acct. United Ironworkers #8378
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/30/14 12:43 PM
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Thanks everyone, Please keep the ideas coming. Where would I going muratic acid to buy, what type of store? I was guessing auto parts store? But don't know? Its where they sell pool cleaning supplies, but stick with the vinegar unless you can't wait a day for the chain. Its safer and easier to deal with IMO. ~ADC~
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/30/14 12:53 PM
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Law Dog
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Pour that acid on the chain and step back as the fumes can knock you for a loop! Not good to suck in!
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/30/14 04:32 PM
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Once you've used full strength white vinegar from Walmart for $3.00 a gallon, you'll never mess with Muratic Acid again.
It safe, and quick, and easy, and you won't have a Mini Toxic Waste Disposal problem to deal with afterwards.
Muratic acid is some big time nasty stuff and totally unnecessary to use it.
Just use the vinegar.
24 to 48 hours tops to clean the chain free of chrome, or zinc, or nickel plate.
Then just rinse it, and if you don't want the chain to rust, rinse it in a baking soda bath to neutralize the vinegar's acid.
walleyed
"Provisional/Interim" member of NYS Trappers Association Jefferson Co. Fur Harvesters
I Support Non-Resident Trapping
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/21/18 06:29 AM
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Thought I would bring this too the top since a lot of guys are working on trap prep right now.
I use vinegar.
Brian
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: removing Zinc from chain???
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06/21/18 08:04 AM
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Vinegar is easy, safe, and effective. Just cover the chain with it in any old plastic container. It won't take but around 24 hours. This is what I use too. Strips it right off.
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