I know this has been on here before, but it probably needs rerun. A few weeks a go I went out to the garage, and I noticed that the handle on my bench vise was all rusted. I had used it a couple of days earlier with no sign of rust. I am in southern CA, where you can crawl under a 15 year old car, and it still looks like new, including exhaust. I was under the bench looking for a can of paint, and I come across a plastic jug of Muriatic Acid, and it had sprung a small leak in the bottom. I didn't even remember it being in there. In just a couple of days, anything that was bare metal in that garage was rusted. Blasted parts, tools, mill handles and tables, you name it, nothing was spared. The worse part is it is not like a damp rust that can be usually cleaned up with a scotch brite and some WD 40, this rust pits, and does not go away. Save your self a headache, take that stuff and put it out back in the wood shed, and make sure it's down wind, because the fumes will travel and still rust. If anyone knows a good way to get rid of this rust, I would be happy to hear it.
