OP3CRIMSIN
Senior Member
I took some of yall's great ideas and refitted my tank and it's ready for action!
First is an idea of my own; I added a fill/drain spigot with shutoff ball valve sandwiched between two o-rings for a watertight seal. This seemed necessary as it's honestly a large tank and draining it now won't require moving it while full or bailing out the muck with a bowl or bucket.
Next, I added three more plates to close some of the gap since someone indicated that electrolysis works by line of sight. I did notice that the center axe head wasn't bubbling as much as the outer ones so I've now got two plates inbetween the thicker outside corner ones, AND another on the side of the tank. Again, all are wrapped together with 8gau copper wire and ring terminals.
Next, I replaced the galvanized steel conductor strip with a much more conductive copper one. It looks like swiss cheese, but that was all Home Depot offered. I also changed out the negative post with a much thicker bolt so that the negative alligator clip had some beef to grab.
I junked the hanging wire between two washers idea and went with a more purposeful copper bonding lug. I installed three of them evenly spaced apart for most any size item and to keep the weight centered, I drilled three adjacent holes where the wire will be fed through the center of the 2x4 and into the lugs.
Top down view. I'm proud of my little mad scientist project Any more ideas? Keep 'em coming!
First is an idea of my own; I added a fill/drain spigot with shutoff ball valve sandwiched between two o-rings for a watertight seal. This seemed necessary as it's honestly a large tank and draining it now won't require moving it while full or bailing out the muck with a bowl or bucket.
Next, I added three more plates to close some of the gap since someone indicated that electrolysis works by line of sight. I did notice that the center axe head wasn't bubbling as much as the outer ones so I've now got two plates inbetween the thicker outside corner ones, AND another on the side of the tank. Again, all are wrapped together with 8gau copper wire and ring terminals.
Next, I replaced the galvanized steel conductor strip with a much more conductive copper one. It looks like swiss cheese, but that was all Home Depot offered. I also changed out the negative post with a much thicker bolt so that the negative alligator clip had some beef to grab.
I junked the hanging wire between two washers idea and went with a more purposeful copper bonding lug. I installed three of them evenly spaced apart for most any size item and to keep the weight centered, I drilled three adjacent holes where the wire will be fed through the center of the 2x4 and into the lugs.
Top down view. I'm proud of my little mad scientist project Any more ideas? Keep 'em coming!