Tain’t a Stovebolt, but good enough to test the new bath.
I was browsing an antique mall Monday and ran across this Stanley plane
on a junk shelf. Thought it would be a good test for the Milkstone remover that I picked
up at the Tractor Store. :
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/159262400 The bath; Milkstone Remover and Acid Rinse.
Mix solution of 1part acid:6part water:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/159262401 This is what it looks like bubbling away after 15minutes:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/15926240230minute soak and it’s good enough for a few minutes at the wire wheel:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/159263227 Not bad for a $3.85 80 year old junk plane.
But……..the point is the gallon of Milkstone Remover will only run you $13 and it would
make 6-8-10 gallons of bath depending on how strong you wanted to make it and how
fast you wanted it to work. I would imagine that you could mix a 10:1 batch and leave
your parts in overnight and it would still work pretty good. A lot better and cheaper than
Evap-o-rust or apple cider or molasses or electrolysis. And since it won’t remove tiny
detail like sandblasting does, your restoration will look factory new after stripping and
painting.
In the higher concentrations and longer soak time I’ve found Phosphoric acid will lift the
paint also
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
