Thanks. Other than dissassembling everything, i did absolutely nothing else aside from the dunk, and rinse 2 days later. The mixture stripped all the rust and gold zinc plating off everything. I am trying to decide if i want the brackets and booster gold zinc plated again, or if i just want to paint the booster black, or all of it black. Decisions decisions. It all depends on where i can find a plater to do this, and how cheaply.