Rusty tools restoration
Posted: September 2nd, 2020, 12:29 pm
Hi Guys,
I thought i would photograph a few of the things i did to my carbon steel tools to remove the rust and crud buildup from neglect over the years, and put a protective coating on them again.
i didnt get a picture before hand, with the rust on the tools, but i did get a picture of the solution after 36 hours of soaking.
First i used inox to try and strip the rust, and hit it with wet and dry, man what an effort, and didnt really yield the results i was looking for.
So then i mixed up some vinegar and a teaspoon of citric acid in a tupperware container, enough to cover the tools.
This is the first picture.
I then rinsed these off in warm water and hit them with steel wool to take off the majority of the patina and gunk, getting in and around the crevices etc.
i then dried them off with paper towel and set my oven (fan forced) to max (250 degrees) and got it roaring hot.
When the oven was pre heated, i wiped the tooles down with canola oil and put them in for 45 minutes, and then once finished, left them there for half an hour without opening the oven.
I then opened the oven and wiped down tools with more oil, while still very hot (almost too hot to hold through a folded tea towel)
You can see the patina and seal from the oil, just like with seasoned cast iron. Once they are cool, ill be wiping them off and storing them, perhaps ill do a few targeted sprays of inox/WD-40 on the rivets.
I thought i would photograph a few of the things i did to my carbon steel tools to remove the rust and crud buildup from neglect over the years, and put a protective coating on them again.
i didnt get a picture before hand, with the rust on the tools, but i did get a picture of the solution after 36 hours of soaking.
First i used inox to try and strip the rust, and hit it with wet and dry, man what an effort, and didnt really yield the results i was looking for.
So then i mixed up some vinegar and a teaspoon of citric acid in a tupperware container, enough to cover the tools.
This is the first picture.
I then rinsed these off in warm water and hit them with steel wool to take off the majority of the patina and gunk, getting in and around the crevices etc.
i then dried them off with paper towel and set my oven (fan forced) to max (250 degrees) and got it roaring hot.
When the oven was pre heated, i wiped the tooles down with canola oil and put them in for 45 minutes, and then once finished, left them there for half an hour without opening the oven.
I then opened the oven and wiped down tools with more oil, while still very hot (almost too hot to hold through a folded tea towel)
You can see the patina and seal from the oil, just like with seasoned cast iron. Once they are cool, ill be wiping them off and storing them, perhaps ill do a few targeted sprays of inox/WD-40 on the rivets.