Mr Whippy
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 posted on 26/2/08 at 07:26 PM |
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Behold the power of Vinegar!!
I thought I'd post the results of a little test I was doing to see just how good vinegar was at getting rid of rust. So when I took of this
exhaust clamp from my bike which was simply a lump of rust I through it straight into my big tub of malt vinegar. This is what it looks like after 2
weeks of my doing nothing to it. I haven't scrubbed it or done anything other than give it a rinse, you can see from the pitting just how bad it
was. Quite impressive really.
 
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Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 07:27 PM |
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and the other side...
 
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Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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RazMan
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 07:29 PM |
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Certainly impressive - as good as electrolysis but without all the faffing.
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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stevec
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 07:32 PM |
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Very impressive,
But with all the vinegar smells you will have to change your user name to Mr Chippy
Steve.
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andrews_45
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 07:45 PM |
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hmmm? is that off a 2 stroke?
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Delinquent
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 08:02 PM |
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Blimey that is rather impressive.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 08:09 PM |
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It does work - but make sure that you REALLY rinse it off when you've finished, then either paint it or oil it, as it'll rust as you
watch!
It's also really good for getting the scale off black steel.
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StevieB
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 08:11 PM |
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It certainly works ery well, if a little pungent! At least there's no possibility of any of the nasty by-products that can occur with
electrolosys.
I did my rear caliper brackets, scrubbed them off daily and kept them in the vinegar for a week. Once the rust had gone, I washed them off, baked
them in my gas BBQ for 20 mins (the get the water out of the porous metal) and gave them a going over with the wire wheel. Nice and shiney (at the
time, but they've oxidised again by now).
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joneh
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 08:26 PM |
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Would coca cola do the same trick? Worth a bash.
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StevieB
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 08:27 PM |
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Why use Coke? Malt vinegar is 17p a litre in Tesco
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AdrianH
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 09:15 PM |
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I have used malt vinegar with salt dissolved in the vinegar until no more will dissolve. It may speed up the process, not sure how.
I believe it has been known in the model engineering groups for some time.
Adrian
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 10:09 PM |
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Vinegar & salt is good for cleaning copper and brass - I believe that the salt speeds up the action of the vinegar.
Not sure I'd want to put anything made of steel into a salt solution...
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indykid
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| posted on 26/2/08 at 11:06 PM |
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unlike electrolysis, it'll also attack clean steel surfaces like bearing seats and such like.
not bad for unmachined bits like that though.
tom
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 27/2/08 at 02:41 AM |
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Behold the power of vinegar
Suprising what a little mild acid will do, just think about that the next time your enjoying your fish and chips.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 27/2/08 at 09:58 AM |
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When i was an apprentice i did a spell in one of the production QA labs. The lads in there were mad as hatters. One of them was bust restoring a
RS2000. He brought the suspension arms in and was going through powerfile belts like they were going out of fashion (it was in the Black & Decker
factory so there was a plentiful supply). The lab was filled with brown dust. Then he decided a far better idea was to use the acid they normally
reserve for testing hardness depth. Cant remember exact type but rather strong sulphuric seems to ring a bell. The parts did not take long for rust to
be removed with that stuff. A quick rinse off and trip through Workmate paint plant (back in the days when they were black) and they were as good as
new.
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