Rust removal

[Drew Pojedinec]

Fantastic story Heo.... my wife and I got a good laugh out of it.

[Heo]

Well our mothers had to...how do you say...endure some
of our ideas

[Drew Pojedinec]

Yeah, my parents visited this past month.  They always remind me (and sadly my children) of stuff I did as a kid.
This time they brought up one of my brilliant ideas I'd forgotten about.

The school bus dropped us all off at the bottom of the hill.  I'd walk about a mile to get home.  Well there was this really nice river and a tunnel with a 4ft pipe under the road.
I was about 12-13 years old and spring was upon us so all the snow was melting.  Thus the river was REALLY roaring.
While gazing at the whirlpool on the upriver side of the road and seeing the water shooting out of the pipe on the downriver side it became clear to me what I had to do.  I figured the pipe run was only about 80-100 ft, I threw a stick in the river and timed it to see how long it took to go out the pipe.

So, imagine if you will, a 12 or 13 year old boy stripping down in the middle of the road, jumping off a bridge into a whirlpool and shooting out the other side 30 seconds later.
I thought it was awesome and did it a few more times before my friend's mother drove by on her way home from work and saw me.  She slapped me around a good bit for being an idiot and drove me home.

Makes me wonder sometimes how they put up with it all.

[thatdarncat]

Or how we lived 

[Heo]

  Sound like a good idea i told my
mother a while ago that she is lucky that she dont know
all the things we did. 
One Realy good idea we had. We figure out how to put
out all the street lights in the village and there is a side street
down a steep hill crossing the main road and continue down
to the river. So we came up with the idea .....Put out the street lights
wait till we se a car comming pour gasoline over a friends bike, light
it on fire and he run down the hill as fast as he can cross the main road
in front of the car and keep going in to the river third car that came was
the cops If there is a record in running with a Jerry can i
think i still hold that record

[babybolt]

Oxalic acid (a white powder) is an excellent rust remover. Mix powder with water and let your object soak. Check it occasionally as it soaks. You'll be pleased.

KS

Most of the big box home improvement stores carry Bar Keepers Friend which mostly consists of abrasive but does have oxalic acid.  It does work pretty good at removing rust from machined surfaces by hand scrubbing.

[Lenz]

Sound like a good idea i told my
mother a while ago that she is lucky that she dont know
all the things we did. 
One Realy good idea we had. We figure out how to put
out all the street lights in the village and there is a side street
down a steep hill crossing the main road and continue down
to the river. So we came up with the idea .....Put out the street lights
wait till we se a car comming pour gasoline over a friends bike, light
it on fire and he run down the hill as fast as he can cross the main road
in front of the car and keep going in to the river third car that came was
the cops If there is a record in running with a Jerry can i
think i still hold that record

Sounds like you had a great time Heo
Being young and immortal has it's benefits, no?  I try not to think back too much, easy to wonder how I ever survived some of my more brilliant moments. 

[Heo]

Im in that age so i started to think back a lot
50 year crisis they call it

[428 GALAXIE]

Not that funny story but citrus acid is really useful in rust removal.It is used use as small pig vomit medicine in here
safe to use.With heat it removes rust in couple of hours.
bare steel its fine hard bolts spring steel and some cast iron its not fine it produses hydrogen porous in those.
And most beverage that you drink has citrus acid,or so its around here

[Heo]

Yes there is a special heat treatment procedure to drive the
hydrogen out of the bolts after you have electro coated them with zink
A must if you Crome springs or high tension bolts
Because they are diped in acid during the prosess

[428 GALAXIE]

MMM yes but i am talkingn about rust removal not the fancy dip.This is for rust removal whatever amount water and about 4-5 % citrus acid.Add heat it will do it faster.Hard bolts springs and some cast iron will go shit in bath.And the better side of this is you can go and take zip of that juice in your coke or pepsi

[Heo]

Yes  its the acid that cause the hydrogen enbrittelment