Comments on: From The Flickr Pool: De-Rusting Old Hardware http://toolmonger.com/2007/07/05/from-the-flickr-pool-de-rusting-old-hardware/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: TMIB_Seattle http://toolmonger.com/2007/07/05/from-the-flickr-pool-de-rusting-old-hardware/#comment-89034 TMIB_Seattle Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:32:27 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/07/05/from-the-flickr-pool-de-rusting-old-hardware/#comment-89034 Hey, my pics are on toolmonger again. cool. :) This process scales up quite easily. I used to keep one of those big blue plastic rain barrels (20 gallon?) in my shop full of the soda/water solution. I used it to derust all sorts of things, including motorcycle exhaust pipes. It's also a good way to derust motorcycle gas tanks. You can close the fuel tap and fill the tank with the solution, then use a peice of rebar as the anode. A funnel will keep it from contacting the sides of the tank opening and a bit of electrical tape wrapped on the tip will keep it from touching bottom. No container needed. A couple more pages of info: FAQ: http://www.bhi.co.uk/hints/rust.htm The chemistry of why this works: http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/links/electrolysis_explanation.phtml Making a power supply for derusting out of a PC power supply: http://buncombe.main.nc.us/~mikel/derust.html Hey, my pics are on toolmonger again. cool. :)

This process scales up quite easily. I used to keep one of those big blue plastic rain barrels (20 gallon?) in my shop full of the soda/water solution. I used it to derust all sorts of things, including motorcycle exhaust pipes.

It’s also a good way to derust motorcycle gas tanks. You can close the fuel tap and fill the tank with the solution, then use a peice of rebar as the anode. A funnel will keep it from contacting the sides of the tank opening and a bit of electrical tape wrapped on the tip will keep it from touching bottom. No container needed.

A couple more pages of info:

FAQ:
http://www.bhi.co.uk/hints/rust.htm

The chemistry of why this works:
http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/links/electrolysis_explanation.phtml

Making a power supply for derusting out of a PC power supply:
http://buncombe.main.nc.us/~mikel/derust.html

]]> By: Tim Underwood http://toolmonger.com/2007/07/05/from-the-flickr-pool-de-rusting-old-hardware/#comment-88848 Tim Underwood Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:14:18 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/07/05/from-the-flickr-pool-de-rusting-old-hardware/#comment-88848 This works wonders for old rusted tools as well. I have salvaged several sets of rusted tin snips with ERR. This is a good site with links to more explaination. http://www.davidbradley.net/ERR.html This works wonders for old rusted tools as well. I have salvaged several sets of rusted tin snips with ERR.

This is a good site with links to more explaination.
http://www.davidbradley.net/ERR.html

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