[meego]

I left some rusty bolts in vinegar for a few days as an experiment. Took them out tonight and they looked no different. Until I gave them a wipe. The rust just fell off leaving them looking almost like New. I just need enough vinegar now to submerge a Fender and a Disco.

 

[Marmaduke]

I left some rusty bolts in vinegar for a few days as an experiment. Took them out tonight and they looked no different. Until I gave them a wipe. The rust just fell off leaving them looking almost like New. I just need enough vinegar now to submerge a Fender and a Disco.

Just image the long trail of fat kids running after you if you vehicle was running on veg oil to, it would be like a mobile chipshop A modern day pied piper

 

[boguing]

Vinegar is Acetic acid, and acids and steel cause 'Hydrogen Embrittlement'. Never use acids on a bolt that you might depend on. Any acid, any strength really.

 

[Flossie]

I dropped an old very rusty clip in a empty pickled onion jar once. Well, empty of pickles not vinegar of course.
6 mths later I cracked the jar open and the smell was awful!
Chucked the stinky liquid down the sink which was a bad move cos the whole house stunk for 2 days after.
Clip was spotless though.

 

[doriz]

Fort us trendies is Balsamic any better?

 

[v8landyman]

Phosphoric acid at 25-30% is the best stuff to use for rusty metal. It dissolves the rust and passivates the surface ready for painting. It is far superior to all those fancy rust treatments that are sold at vast cost.