I have some wrenches and other hand tools that were in our truck that goes super rusted this year. I was planning on throwing it into some oxalic with a gallon of water but not sure the cut with something so severe. We generally cut about 1c/gal for normal rust removal but never tried anything like this. Ideas?
I would just get a gallon or two of white vinegar from the grocery store, and soak the tools overnight or until the rust is gone. Plenty of YouTube videos on the process. Make sure to treat the tools afterwards.
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Never heard the white vinegar trick ill give it a shot! I had the oxalic in the truck and figured id give that a go. Its snowing here so ill let the tools soak in a 1c/gal of oxalic until the snow lets up and if i dont see a good change in them ill get some white vinegar
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@theotherguy Keep in mind that:
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The rust may appear to be still on the tool but if you rinse it the rust will come right off…That’s just how a submersion rust remover works.
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If you don’t treat it afterwards you will get flash rust, WILL WILL WILL WILL, not “might”
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how do you suggest treating it afterwards? What we have done in the past with concrete was just good coverage, heavy agitation then a through rinse
White vinegar turns the rust black. It’s pretty cool.
There is dissolving concrete and there is dissolving rust.
After, some type of oil is my preferred rust preventative, in a pinch I’ve used WD-40.
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It’s actually a form pf phosphatizing, except phosphoric acid works much better. Using vinegar, which is a weakened form of glacial acetic acid will do in a pinch, but phos is the real way to go.
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Blaster Corrosion Stop. I use it on everything. Works as well if not better than Fluid Film. Love it.
Its funny i use boiling apple cider vinegar to put a rust(AKA patina) on my high carbon knife. To protect it. Im wondering if doing the same to my tools would keep the bad rust away.
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If you dont want any kind of rust even the good kind i would wipe it down with a little mineral oil after.
Or WD40 i just prefer something not as toxic.
(Would hate to put a dip in after getting wd40 all over my fingers:joy:
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Of course. Just doesn’t work as well as Blaster stuff in my opinion.
Where I’m at I’ve seen the blaster corrosion stop last up to a year, hold salt on the surface of bare metal without rusting, and it’s sticky and thick.
Sticks to the truck frame like glue.
You can use antifreeze instead of vinegar. I have a few things soaking now.
Would that be ethylene glycol antifreeze or propylene glycol antifreeze?
By the way, it’s the rust inhibitors in the PG and EG that are likely helping. Not the actual EG and PG
That would be the phosphotizer I spoke of earlier
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I don’t know. Its pink. I’ll have to check the label.
Wow! I just found the guy equivalent to when men ask women about cars…I don’t know what kind it is, it’s red, I turn the key, and it goes, that’s all I need to know…the looks I get from men folk when I say something like that!!!
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Hahaha.
I was just joking. I know my antifreeze. Ethylene is sweet tasting and propylene is sour.
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