polara71
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Black interior cars should have black between the seal and the panel.......... The last year for this is 1970
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Black interior cars should have black between the seal and the panel.......... The last year for this is 1970
Wollfen
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That cap looks brilliant, i really should try this on some parts of mine, whats the formula you have used for the solution?
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Bummer on the rust through! Looks like it could have been worse though. A good excuse to buy a welder and learn a new trade!
patrick66
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Another good and cheap rust remover is straight vinegar. I've saved some nasty parts using this method. Bathe the part(s) overnight, ensuring they are submerged. Rinse with water. Works great!
polara71
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Your kidding?
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That's one I haven't heard either. My parts that are small enough to be submerged are also small enough for my tumbler or blasting cabinet and I don't have to smell the vinegar.
I used Metal Rescue Rust Remover Bath. It came with the other stuff from Summit in the trunk of the Imp.
http://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/app-1812290487/overview/
Jep, I was hoping I don't have rust holes on my car, but you're right. Good reason to buy a welder and lern welding...
I will try that. Do you use the 10% concentrated vinegar or does it have to be the 70% one?
polara71
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Easter is coming, perhaps I could use the leftover egg dye
Holy cow you have been busy 
bajajoaquin
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10% stuff.
If you want to do stainless, use citric acid. Some people have used the "citrus" cleaners with success, but I just ordered crystals on Amazon.com and made a 10% solutin (by weight) and it cleaned the stainless right up.
patrick66
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I've used the 10% with success. I might get a gallon of the 70% to see if it is more effective. The smell of vinegar doesn't bother me. There are much worse smells out there! Farts after eating gyros and garlic-stuffed olives come to mind!:yaayy:
bluefury361
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commando1
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There are farts that will peel the chrome off of a tail pipe....
Ok, thats great. The 10% stuff is cheap and easy to get. The 70% stuff is the hard to get stuff... I will ask my brother for the cidric acid cristals, he is a pharmacist and I guess a pharmacy will sell this stuff!
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Yep, it's so exciting ;)
bajajoaquin
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Yeah, just regular 10% vinegar. It's not fast, but it's pretty gentle, which is a good thing. You don't want to remove as much as possible, you want to remove as little as necessary.
The main reason to use citric acid is to passivate stainless steel. For any metallurgists out there, I know passivation is the wrong technical term, but it's the common usage to describe stripping away the oxidation that forms on stainless over time and has converted to red rust. Once stainless converts to red rust, it will continue to rust (although a little slower than mild steel). You need to strip away the top layer of oxidation, and "re-set" it, so to speak. After treating with citric acid, you can polish easily. If you don't need to deal with stainless a lot, I'd say that it's not worth dealing with. Plain ol' vinegar will be a better first step.
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