It has been almost 40 years but I did use naval jelly on chromed steel back then. I was cleaning up an old chil's trike; the handlebars were brown. After applying naval jelly to the handlebars they were shiny again though somewhat pitted.
Paul Patzkowsky
Longmont, Colorado
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:01:05 -0500
> From: johnb@oxford.net
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR] Rust Remover--Found it!
>
> John Ferguson wrote:
> > Rust Release Super Gel...only took an hour or so to find it again.
> >
> > I'm going to try mixing Evaporust with corn starch first.
> >
> Have you tried naval jelly? Should be able to find it in a hardware
> store. You just paint it on like paint stripper jel. I've used an oxalic
> acid bath to remove rust from chromed steel bits and it works really
> well. A few weeks ago I saw a piece on a hot rod show on Speed Channel
> about a product called Metal Rescue http://www.metalrescue.com that was
> supposed to be "environmentally friendly" and requested a sample on the
> site. There's lots of videos there how it works. I've tried to compare
> it against oxalic acid, but so far have only done it on a couple of
> really rusty license plate screws I found in the garage. Neither one
> came out bright and shiny after 24 hours. I've yet to try it on rusty
> chrome parts.
>
> --
> John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada