Nope, I never claimed molassas to be the best process for removing rust. In fact it has to be the slowest way I've ever seen. Also it will not remove paint, only surface rust. But it does have it's place, at least for me. My favorite is sandblasting. Fast and does a nice job. But as Tony M. mentioned, there are times that blasting would do more damage to your panel than good. Or places that you can't get to with a blaster. For those, I use to use our local Redi-Strip place. Then about 15 years ago they went out of business, leaving us with the nearest Redi-Strip being around 300 miles away. (Madison or Milwaukee) So that's when I started using molasses. Has really saved my butt many times, I just hate waiting for a couple weeks for it to do it's thing. If I lived somewhere commercial stripping was available I would much rather have that done. Way faster and less work for me!

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