trivial trivia

[fredk]

Go on then. Keep it rolling....................rolling, rolling.... rawhide....RAWHIDE!

[fredk]

How to remove rust/corrosion from hard to clean parts metal parts

Soak in a citric acid or in vinegar. The vinegar works faster if salt is added, it also works a bit more vigorously when its hot

Last November whilst at RAF Cosford's Conservation Hangar a conservator showed me an engine he was recovering. It had spent 72 years in sea water and sand. One of he crank shafts he shewed us  [there were two] and its connecting rods and pistons were just a mass of corrosion. Here we have multiple metals; steel crank, aluminium connecting rod, aluminium magnesium piston and white metal bearings. Then he showed us a treated assembly; it had spent six months in an airtight container soaking citric acid - it looked like it had just come out of an old working engine , not totally pristine but almost all the corrosion was gone - even the piston rings were movable it their grooves.

Since then I've been using this technique to clean mild surface rust off old neglected tools. Usually a few days or a week's soaking is enough. I've also used it to clean brass electric components on a certain job order

and,......btw CokeCola no longer works for cleaning anything

[Rockoboy]

39 minutes ago, fredk said:

btw CokeCola no longer works for cleaning anything

... and it makes the Coca Cola taste awful, so don't even go there!

[Matt S]

18 hours ago, Rockoboy said:

Sometimes I think my ex-wife was destined to be a nun ... Anytime I tried to get a bit ... ummm ... frisky, she would say "you're getting nun of that" or when I wanted a couple cold beers, she would say "there's nun left". As for cooking a decent meal, she always gave me 2 chances "Buckley's and nun"!!

My dad used to be a nun. Every time he was up in court the judge asked him his occupation and he would say "nun!"

[Mjolnir]

8 hours ago, fredk said:

How to remove rust/corrosion from hard to clean parts metal parts

Soak in a citric acid or in vinegar. The vinegar works faster if salt is added, it also works a bit more vigorously when its hot

Last November whilst at RAF Cosford's Conservation Hangar a conservator showed me an engine he was recovering. It had spent 72 years in sea water and sand. One of he crank shafts he shewed us  [there were two] and its connecting rods and pistons were just a mass of corrosion. Here we have multiple metals; steel crank, aluminium connecting rod, aluminium magnesium piston and white metal bearings. Then he showed us a treated assembly; it had spent six months in an airtight container soaking citric acid - it looked like it had just come out of an old working engine , not totally pristine but almost all the corrosion was gone - even the piston rings were movable it their grooves.

Since then I've been using this technique to clean mild surface rust off old neglected tools. Usually a few days or a week's soaking is enough. I've also used it to clean brass electric components on a certain job order

and,......btw CokeCola no longer works for cleaning anything

we used to use coke to clean the connects on car batteries.

Heinz 57 will polish a penny like new!

[bermudahwin]

Good old English  British Brown Sauce (HP or Daddies) is great on some pieces, but I have never found a US equivalent, even having been there often enough to get Global Entry.

Brst

H

 

Edited March 11, 2018 by hwinbermuda
Don't know if either Brand is British rather than English!!!!

[Mjolnir]

On ‎3‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 2:52 PM, hwinbermuda said:

Good old English  British Brown Sauce (HP or Daddies) is great on some pieces, but I have never found a US equivalent, even having been there often enough to get Global Entry.

Brst

H

 

First the sauce, then steel. Where will it all end!? I would love to try HP but my only choice is the old 57 or a generic knock off!

[alpha2]

Heinz 57...57 times my steak was SO bad I had to put sauce on it. 57 reasons I won't let that mystery sauce touch my steak. 57 people I won't go to a steak house with. 57... oh well, you get idea. 

Actually, that whole bit is from "You've Got Mail". 

Now, to be fair, Mjolnir, have you TRIED Heinz 57 sauce as your "charred steak brown" dye? And what do you use as a sealer? Resolene? Fiebings spray finish? Neatsfoot oil? Enquiring minds want to know! (Ha! funny, spell checker chocked on "enquiring"! apparently they don't know of the Nation Enquirer!")

[Mjolnir]

1 minute ago, alpha2 said:

Heinz 57...57 times my steak was SO bad I had to put sauce on it. 57 reasons I won't let that mystery sauce touch my steak. 57 people I won't go to a steak house with. 57... oh well, you get idea. 

Actually, that whole bit is from "You've Got Mail". 

Now, to be fair, Mjolnir, have you TRIED Heinz 57 sauce as your "charred steak brown" dye? And what do you use as a sealer? Resolene? Fiebings spray finish? Neatsfoot oil? Enquiring minds want to know! (Ha! funny, spell checker chocked on "enquiring"! apparently they don't know of the Nation Enquirer!")

It has its place, and no, ketchup is not a steak sauce. The jus from a perfectly cooked tenderloin is the best sauce, but a $6 sirloin may need some edge trim, definitely an edge kote of black..end seasoning.

I'm going to eat a tenderloin with a round knife and a pricking iron!

[Mjolnir]

ohh yeaaah!