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Originally Posted by hop2it
Rusty,
50/50 acetone and ATF ,the electrolysis system I am familiar with uses washing soda which is alkaline and water powered by a battery charger, it is acid dipping that causes hydrogen inbrittlement. Check out Redistrip I think they are in Indionapolis hop this sheds some light on the subject
Doug
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Alkaline solutions will also produce hydrogen embrittlement. It is the production of ionic hydrogen at the cathode getting trapped with what is plated. As no metal is being plated, although the part is cathodic, embrittlement with this cleaning is not an issue. When I was an electroplater, and we cad plated aircraft parts, embrittlement was a major problem, so we would bake the parts after plating. The cad bath is a highly alkiline solution, so it is not just acidic solutions.