Subject: Re: Plating again

From: "Bruce M. Freeman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 21:41:37 -0500

At 09:27 AM 4/4/96 MST, you wrote:
>Keep an open mind on plating--if lowering anealing temp doesn't do the
>trick, I bet it's plating. 
>
>Plating in this case means plating the scale in the bottom of the tub,
>with the brass as the source of metal (zinc).
>
>--
>Steve Smith
>[email-masked]
>
>
Steve, 
Not to discourage you, but the "plating" should occur regardless of the
annealing.
The heating operation should be irrelevent to the removal of zinc from brass
by the water (containing iron) in a slack tub.  Easy experiment.
Bruce