mjgraham
Well-known member
Hi, I have been trucking along doing pretty good, I won't say I have a problem just curious if anyone has seen this. I have a 4 gallon bucket I have a 50/50 mix of HCl and H2O to remove solder. Been doing batches of ram sticks and all has been doing good. My last batch I noticed that when I opened the top it was light green as if I have made an AP solution, did not think much of it, after I siphoned it out and filtered the sludge the mix went back clear after a few days. Last week I had a batch of 60 sticks in it and I noticed when they were done and I collected the sludge there was some copper in the mix along with the sludge but the solution was a slight yellow to clear, like normal. Well in the mean time I decided to heat the batch, I have constructed a double boiler kind of set up for it had it running for an hour popped the top and it was purple, not expecting that at all. The only other difference I just realized is that I had been removing all the parts off before with a torch this time I decided to let the acid do the removing, humm just realized there may have been some other metal in the mix now..