yetiface09
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Hello everyone. First time post here. I've been reading a ton and checked out Lazersteve's site + vids. Excellent work I must say. This forum seems like an invaluable source of knowledge and I'm glad to be a part of it. Here's my issue. I have 8.5 oz of plated pins from all sorts of motherboards, PCI/PCIe cards, procs, hard drive connectors (SATA/SAS/SCSI).. . you get the drift. I started them with nitric/water 50/50 bath and soaked them for 9 days... The solution turned green and probably exhausted all the acid out (saturated the solution?) according to my research with the search tool. So I decided to use the AP method. (Yes I know... wrong move I'm sure) I must say the solution reacted much faster (ie: turned green then black) within a minute of starting. So I let that soak for a few days. I agitated it a couple of times a day. I would notice the pins kind of solidifying at the bottom of the beaker so I carefully decanted a bit of the solution and added more hydrochloric. I left for the holiday weekend and came back to check on it. It's doing much better now but when can I expect this to be done? Seriously this is taking way longer than I expected and I know it has to be something I'm doing/not doing. I have a bubbler somewhere but if I go out into the garage to find it, my wife will have to send out a search party to find me. Needless to say my garage is a black hole. Would the bubbler help? Or am I just way off base? Thanks in advance.