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49034
Preferential attack during electropolishing
[Mexico]
June 16, 2008
Hello
I am trying to electropolish a cylinder of stainless steel. I place a
platinum wire inside the cylinder for allowing the current to pass.
As cathode I have two plates of stainless steel of the same
composition as the cylinder. The cathodes are at both ends of the
cylinder. The electrolyte is a phosphoric, sulfuric water mixture.
The temperature is about 40ºC. And I have a problem: one end is
always more electropolished that the other, I mean, the
electropolishing is not regular as one end is thinner than the other
one. I have asked a lot of people and I have consulted many books but
I am not able for find a solution.
Elizabeth Perez
- Mexico
June 18, 2008
Hello,
Move up the current.
Jose Castellanos
- Minneapolis, MN, USA


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