Re: Integral Tank Cleaning With Ammonia

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Jim – Ammonia actually eats away at the copper in brass, however it generally takes a fairly high concentration to do that. Were you using household ammonia, or did you get something stronger?

If anyone wants to look it up, ammonia attacking copper is called Stress Corrosion Cracking, and the material generally fails due to tensile forces once it has been weakened

Actually, that reminds me, don’t soak brass or copper carb parts in ammonia.