I use a product called "Rust Dissolver" made by the Eastwood company http://www.eastwood.com which I highly recommend. It is really effective, and parts come out very bright and shiny. It also will not affect rubber, plastic, etc. I put about an inch and a half in an old jam jar, and simply drop my small parts in. When done, I simply screw the lid on the jar, and save it for next time. It does require permanent wetted contact to work, so painting it on larger surfaces a bit of a pain. A gel product would work better then.
Tony Taylor Manchester NH
________________________________ From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sun, March 7, 2010 9:01:05 PM 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