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Has anybody actualy tried the water and soap powder/baking soda and the battery charger for rust removal? Im going to if it will save some money just currious if anyone has found some additional tricks to the method. I will let ya know how well it works for me on some old f###d pieces for my 1934 gas delivery f###d. :hammering:

let me know, i might give it a shot and hopefully save a little money

I used it... Works great. I used 20 mule team borax, my charger and a stainless piece of sheet metal for the sacrificial piece. However, read the article on the link concerning using a stainless piece. It's better to use a piece of iron.

http://www.htpaa.org.au/article-electro.php

I learned a trick from the guys over at OLDIHC.org. You take 1 part non-desulpherized molasses(animal feed supplement) to 10 parts water, add your rusty, peelingpaint metal hoozits to the mix, wait a couple of weeks and the hoozit comes out a shiny doohickey with no rust and no paint. It has to do with the sulpher and something about chelating processes but it's cheap, environmentally friendly, can be used over again and doesn't smell bad.

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I have done it. It works great. If you can't find baking soda you can use soda ash from a pool supply store.

I used it to remove the rust on my hood and various other parts. Only took a few hours

It's not baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) that you use, it's washing soda (sodium carbonate). I have had success using TSP (trisodium phosphate).

Your are correct I meant washing soda. I must have been thinking of cookies or something

actually baking soda [NaHCO3] and washing soda [ Na2CO3] are pretty interchangeable, and in some areas washing soda is hard to find .... but the washing soda works somewhat better for this purpose

I use washing soda as a surfactant and water softener [why it's sold as a laundry aid] in my antique bottle washer, which stays clean as the proverbial whistle - I can attest to it's anti-corrosive properties, and always have lots on hand for de-rusting old parts

you definitely shouldn't be using 20 Mule Team Borax [sodium borate or Na2B4O7·10H2O] tho', Super55, you don't need the boron or the oxygen in the process

Bill