Citric acid bath - Little help please

[mivvi]

Hi all,
Just about to do my first Citric acid bath on a slightly rusty frame, forks and bars. I have the Citric acid but am having trouble finding a suitable container to put everything in. I read somewhere that people had used under bed storage boxes but their not long enough, need something at lease 900mm internal diameter in length. Also is it essential to heat the mixture? and a 10% mixture is strong enough?

Sorry for all the questions but any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers everyone!

[pickle]

people have also used inflatable paddling pools as well

[Taipan]

Can I also ask should the solution be hot or cold? 

[oldschoolace]

Kids paddling pool (the ones with 3 inflatable rings) is ideal as it will deform to any shape you want and cheap enough to bin once you are done, thought its perfectly fine to keep for using on other frames. 

Always done mine cold with no issues. Goes pretty cold pretty quick anyway i would imagine, that volume of water

[jonnydiezel]

if you want something more rigid I used a 'plasterers bath' the second time I did a frame in ctric acid

[griff]

Don't forget to fill in the gaps between the frame tubes with stuff (e.g. old plastic bottles filled with water) so you don't need so much solution 

[mivvi]

Thanks all for your help. Inflatable paddling pool! I would never thought of that  Plasterers bucket may be the way to go if I do more but only have this one to do at the moment. Nice one Griff on the plastic bottles, I would have just filled the whole thing 

I may try and put a few water heaters in there too, only as I have some here. Heaters are for my anodising setup, £700 in and still ain't cracked that either 

Well I think tomorrow is the day and will take some before and after shots.

Cheers lads, you never let me down