Stop in for a cup of coffee

I have now removed my post because I believe someone will come gunning for me using stainless steel. I will however, before the bullet ends my life remind people of their extensive use of stainless steel in everyday use, a lot of people even sit licking on stainless steel when they eat, myself included, and if you handle stainless steel a little the fingers will become dark. And this will happen without the stainless steel being down in a bath removing rust.

I have now instead bought a highly toxic compound that is fully legal to sell in California, and also legal to flush down the drain or wherever. This substance is far more toxic than the little chrome that might come off a stainless steel plate, but someone has said it is legal and approved it. Well, I can not pay anyone to get my stainless steel plates approved, so I thought it was best to delete the post. I guess it is worth adding to the story that it does not work well, so I probably have to do something else to remove the rust. The substance will then be down in the drain here. But that is legal.

It is beyond me what people stuff in themselves and don't say a word or complain, while other things are considered so dangerous that it can't be touched. Still people use it blindly even for food. Does people really realize that almost all the food we eat are prepared in stainless steel tanks of various sizes. And the food is slowly rubbing off chrome, nickel and whatever else is in it a little by little. And that is legal.
I am sorry, I don't understand much of mankind.
Does people also realize that food is commercially also prepared on plastic cutting boards that contains several times as much bacterias as cutting boards of wood which is illegal to use for food. Wood has naturally built in substances that kills bacterias. Still, someone has worked with authorities and told them to ban wood, and allow plastic. I am very little impressed with mankind.

Bill
I feel I may have set you off, Bill. I apologize, that was not my intent. Dave set the record straight on the whole chromium issue. But don't weld it without PPE and good ventilation!
As far as plastic goes, They sure do contain a lot of stuff that affects us, most notably the hormone affecting substances used to soften plastics.
Electrolysis rust removal is pretty effective but you need to consider two things:
1. the current needs to be pretty high to get any sort of efficiency.
2. It works pretty much "line of sight", meaning that only the surfaces that are facing the sacrificial anode get efficiently de-rusted.
A very good method is to submerge the part in noe part molasses and five to ten parts water. It's slow but works really, really well and is pretty non-toxic. Stinks, tho.