Contributing Member wolvenstien Posted November 27, 2007 Author Contributing Member Report Posted November 27, 2007 Ok, I am totally finished with the tools.... Along with the above mentioned method of cleaning the tooling heads of the tools, I then took everything over to the work bench and put the "brass" colored 8" wire wheel onto the grinder along with the cardboard buffing wheel I have been using from my buffing/sharpening kit. I used the wire wheel to clean all the shafts of the tools... on several there was a minute speck of rust on the shaft and when i hit it with the wire wheel it removed it along with the plating showing allot of rust beneath the plating. I was able to clean all this up and put then on the buffer using white compound and buffed the metal to a nice shine.... some of them (more vainers' than anything else) had under the plating rust all the way to the tip of the tooling head so I knocked it all off.... the metal was in good shape and buffed up nicely.... on a few the tools had been banged around where the tooling pattern was slightly messed up and I buffed them as well as I could and left them... I will keep them as they.... give them character I hope... all in all I only lost one tool in this whole thing and it was the very small pear shader that I tested the 8" wire wheel on and the wheel tool the tooling pattern off the head.... I smoothed it out and buffed it to a shine so i can use it as a smooth pear shader instead of a patterned one... I will get pix as soon as I remember to get the camera back from the wife..... Now to start another thread asking for pix of tool boards... I have over 400 tools and need ideas on how to make tool caddies to hold em all in.... Quote "The miracle is not how two adults can create a child, the phenomenon is how quickly a child can create two adults." -- VYBE Her: Hit Me Him: Do you want me to use the knife? Her: No, When you hit with a knife, that's STABBING!
BevJones Posted December 10, 2007 Report Posted December 10, 2007 My brother told me coca cola will remove rust off chrome. He uses that on cars. I wonder if the cream of tarter would have gotten to all the rust uner the plating. Bev Quote
Members Kodiak Posted December 10, 2007 Members Report Posted December 10, 2007 I found a non toxic chemical I have used for old gun parts and gunsmithing tools. It's called Evapo Rust. Put some in a pan. drop the tools in and wait a day. It takes all the rust off and also adds a coating to boot. You can keep reusing the same stuff until it stops working. I have used it on old tools, old gun parts, old reloading dies, and it works great. Last time I checked, the Auto Zone was supposed to start carrying it. I get mine from a place called The Rust Store! Jim Quote
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