I took out some tools in one of the toolboxes in the shed I have bought a few years ago as joblot of toolboxes from a retired local carpenter. I didn't know even what was in them. When emptied into a plastic bucket with the rusty tool bits, mostly they were vintage auger, drill bits, chisels and plough plane bits. They were covered in thick rust and dirt.
I poured a bottle of malt vinegar into the bucket with the rusty tool bits, and left over night as I used to do for de-rusting old tools.
Next day, it was hard work cleaning each tool bits with wire wool. I have never seen that much of thick and dark rust coming off from irons like that. The water tank in the loft was emptied and refilled a couple of times for cleaning the de-rusted bits. Now most of the rust is off from the bits.
They are not 100% clean even after the de-rusting. There are bits with either deep pitting or dirts still on them which stuck too hard into the iron. I had to leave them as they are. It was too hard work rubbing with wire wool and taking too much time.
But they look a lot better now dried off. Now what would be best way to keep rust off these old tool bits? If I put them back as they are without any measure to protect them from rusting to the cold damp garden shed somewhere, guaranteed in few days, they would be rusty again.
I poured a bottle of malt vinegar into the bucket with the rusty tool bits, and left over night as I used to do for de-rusting old tools.
Next day, it was hard work cleaning each tool bits with wire wool. I have never seen that much of thick and dark rust coming off from irons like that. The water tank in the loft was emptied and refilled a couple of times for cleaning the de-rusted bits. Now most of the rust is off from the bits.
They are not 100% clean even after the de-rusting. There are bits with either deep pitting or dirts still on them which stuck too hard into the iron. I had to leave them as they are. It was too hard work rubbing with wire wool and taking too much time.
But they look a lot better now dried off. Now what would be best way to keep rust off these old tool bits? If I put them back as they are without any measure to protect them from rusting to the cold damp garden shed somewhere, guaranteed in few days, they would be rusty again.
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