widlin1
Aluminum
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2003
- Location
- Bel Air, MD
I don’t how many of you know about using molasses and water to remove rust, but it works real well. A few years back I bought this stuff called Evapo-Rust to clean up a Sheldon shaper I had just bought. The add said it contained chelating agents that removed the iron from the oxide but not from metallic iron and that it had a sulfur compound in it that then precipitates out the iron. It worked very well but cost with shipping close to 20 dollars a gallon. So in looking on the internet to try and ID the chelating agent I found that molasses contains chelators for iron and does the same thing. I bought 5 gallons of non-de-sulfurized (still has the sulfur in it)molasses at a feed store for 12 cents a pound and diluted with between 7 and 10 parts well water. I washed a bunch of rusty parts from a IH bus and a chisel that had been barried when the house was built in ’56 in laundry detergent and hot water to remove grease and oil and dumped them into the molasses bath. After a day you could see some result but after 2 weeks it was remarkable the amount of rust that was gone and my basement smells good too. It is one of those things that seams like it is taking along time the first week but as soon as you get involved in other things the time goes by real fast. Below are are some pictures. The vice was allowed to soak over night before taking the second picture it has now been in the tube for two days. I am now looking for a bigger tube so I can soak some fenders and my 9x20 wheels, and also thinking about adding some deturgent to the mix to see if it helps with greasy parts.
Forgot one other thing I found out about the power of Molasses it is used to remediate chromium V in well water. It is pumped into the water and reducies the chromium V to chromium III.
Jeff
Forgot one other thing I found out about the power of Molasses it is used to remediate chromium V in well water. It is pumped into the water and reducies the chromium V to chromium III.
Jeff