Former Rusty stuff and things that needed fixin'

[BLIP]

Are you bead blasting the tools or chemical cleaning?

Chemicals = Vinegar and Baking Soda.
If I had a bead blaster no telling what would happen.

Some of the stuff calls for a wire brush, sometimes a wire wheel on a drill. occasionally I need some mag wheel cleaner, or brake cleaner but I try to avoid it.

The Vinegar method is fantastic on hardened old steel.

Situations change the methods occasionally, the vise was vinegar, soda, acetone, wheel, acetone...

 

[CAMSDADDY]

That’s impressive. There is no telling the trouble you could find with a bead blaster.
I guess vinegar and baking soda are pretty safe. Wheel cleaner and brake cleaner are a little more aggressive on the metal and certainly on you.
It’s good to have options.

 

[GaMudd]

If you find yourself in a pinch, I have a bead blaster at work. I only use #8 glass beads and it is approximately 24x24x30.

 

[BLIP]

If you find yourself in a pinch, I have a bead blaster at work. I only use #8 glass beads and it is approximately 24x24x30.

Extremely kind of you I do run into the situation once in awhile.

 

[BLIP]

That’s impressive. There is no telling the trouble you could find with a bead blaster.
I guess vinegar and baking soda are pretty safe. Wheel cleaner and brake cleaner are a little more aggressive on the metal and certainly on you.
It’s good to have options.

I've tried a variety of methods and it really depends on the situation if it's something that is not precision and is of a decent quality metal perhaps I'll use the brake cleaner after trying everything else.
It's all situational, and it's not coming from a professional is the guy trying to clean up some rusty metal...

 

[mtnsmith]

Do you ever use naval jelly? Have used it a lot on rust.

 

[BLIP]

Do you ever use naval jelly? Have used it a lot on rust.

Yes sir I have used it. I neglected you add it in my Arsenal of rust removal...
Most of the stuff I'm doing is surface rust on tools and the vinegar method is pretty darn cheap and allows you to do a lot at once

 

[BLIP]

Dos...

 

[mtnsmith]

Never tried vinegar. Almost all the time I have used naval jelly it turns the surface black and then it is paintable. However I used some once on a speck of rust on a piece of an M1 trigger assembly and it turned it bright gold!

Used a lot of it on this tractor.

 

[BLIP]

Never tried vinegar. Almost all the time I have used naval jelly it turns the surface black and then it is paintable. However I used some once on a speck of rust on a piece of an M1 trigger assembly and it turned it bright gold!

Used a lot of it on this tractor.View attachment 2356833 View attachment 2356834

That sure is a beauty