Vinegar for Mill Scale Removal The Home Machinist!
Jun 10, 2017· Harold (and possibly others) recommended vinegar to remove mill scale from hotrolled steel. I decided to give it a shot. Ordinarily, I would use abrasives or electrolysis, but abrasives don''t do well with the magnetite in scale (Mohr hardness +), and electrolysis tends to put magnetite ON things.