Dorson
#1Hello all,
I have been experiementing with a different way of removing rust than has been posted here. I have had some good results so far and thought I would share it with you all. Some of the ladies here might know the stuff, it is called washing soda which is found in the laudry section of the stores. Basically it is using a plastic container, NOT metal, to hold water and dissolved washing soda and using like stainless steel for an electrode. Using a 12 VDC battery charger and connect the positive lead to the stainless steel and the negative to the object to be cleaned. This will remove the brown rust and soften the black looking rust. It will not harm the steel and you can leave it fizzing for hours on end without damage to the steel. What I do is periodically remove it and take a wire brush and remove the loose rust. Also those green pads used for cleaning metal help remove the last of it. Also using a Dremel with a wire wheel helps get it off too in the tight places. Now I haven't dropped entire cuffs with locks in place yet to say how good it works but I was able to get an old pair of Marlin Daley's apart that had been rusted shut for years. And I had tried Navel Jelly, ammonium citrate, and PB Blaster. If you go onto the net you can find detailed info on how to do this and it is not hard to to.
-Dorson
I have been experiementing with a different way of removing rust than has been posted here. I have had some good results so far and thought I would share it with you all. Some of the ladies here might know the stuff, it is called washing soda which is found in the laudry section of the stores. Basically it is using a plastic container, NOT metal, to hold water and dissolved washing soda and using like stainless steel for an electrode. Using a 12 VDC battery charger and connect the positive lead to the stainless steel and the negative to the object to be cleaned. This will remove the brown rust and soften the black looking rust. It will not harm the steel and you can leave it fizzing for hours on end without damage to the steel. What I do is periodically remove it and take a wire brush and remove the loose rust. Also those green pads used for cleaning metal help remove the last of it. Also using a Dremel with a wire wheel helps get it off too in the tight places. Now I haven't dropped entire cuffs with locks in place yet to say how good it works but I was able to get an old pair of Marlin Daley's apart that had been rusted shut for years. And I had tried Navel Jelly, ammonium citrate, and PB Blaster. If you go onto the net you can find detailed info on how to do this and it is not hard to to.
-Dorson
