Bahama finds

[Red_desert]

Very interesting read!

Yes, I'm attempting to get all this, into a reduced useful handy info, so things turn out right when people go to clean their finds.

 

[ScubaFinder]

If you want to be serious and truly understand artifact conservation, there is already an excellent resource available for free online.

Conservation Research Laboratory - Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation - Texas A&M University

 

[G.I.B.]

I've learned a lot from reading the helpful stuff here.

This was my first attempt with making a small tank.


Condition as found


In the tank



The final product

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice job... silver responds to electrolysis real well.

 

[GatorBoy]

If you want to be serious and truly understand artifact conservation, there is already an excellent resource available for free online.

Conservation Research Laboratory - Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation - Texas A&M University

This is the guy to ask a question about any of this... If Global Marine Exploration..(G.M.E.) trusts him I know I do

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't know if this has been said already but the sacrificial anode should be more noble than the cathode(artifact)

 

[SADS 669]

GIB, what are the plates at each end? Thanks

 

[Red_desert]

We ought to get this condensed into simple steps

1. Use sodium bicarbonate as your electrolyte in the electrolysis solution (Approximately one tablespoon per gallon).
2. The negative lead always goes on the artifact the positive on the anode.
3. Very important that the anode needs to be a more noble metal than the artifact being treated.

Ok, can anyone add to this, make into instructions?

Sacrifice metal it seems, to be the more noble metal.