Anyway to clean a titanium screen that had an accidental combustion and has turned black on the screen?
anyway to clean it and make it look new or do I need a new one? I don't really want to torch my screens or even know if that would be a fix.
I'm thinking about buying some simple green crystal but was curious if this even had a solution, chemical or not...
thanks
there is a commun chemical cleaning solution that works perfect with black charred gunk but it demands real safety attention.
if you use ~10% NaOH solution (caustic soda) bath, all patina, gunk or rainbow heat patina, will be removed, faster with small pieces you can put inside a leak proof can with 10% caustic soda,and then inside an ultrasonic bath filled always only with water (it get hot after few repeated use), otherwise 24hrs should be enough, warm temp works faster than cold one.
safe with titanium and ssteel, corrosive with aluminium, copper and soft metals
To be cleaned after bath with running water then 3% acetic acid (1/2vinegar/water) bath to neutralize any soda left and clean water to go in the end
it is a slippery feeling on your fingers, like soap, a clear warning you have caustic soda starting to softly melting your skin without any pain, and you need to put vinegar on your hands ASAP. Use gloves and eyes protection and all written warnings on the bottle.
Results are for me 100% perfect. Gold on vapcap aureum didn’t go away but the rainbow coloration induced from many heat cycles of my vapcap ti-tip was gone, same on Ssteel, grey as new (Inside and outside).
edit: i was able to make like new also the oven of my pax, always with soda, very little on a q-tip
