Stoaty
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I put my tools into the dishwasher now and again. Brings them up like new.
Rust-proofing boat tools
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actionoptics
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I've managed to get some Silica gel crystals that are blue when dry and pink when wet. I put a few blue ones in with a lot of the normal white ones and when they turn pink, I stick the lot in a warm oven until they go blue again so you don't need a years supply to keep something protected.
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I have a lovely tool-box that sits in my transom locker full of all the odds and ends + tools that any self-respecting yottie would die for. All rusted up.
Care to travel over to here and I'll donate it happily .... haven't the heart to throw it out !!
It's had Silica Gel .... all sorts of Witches Concoctions in the box to stave off the evil brown ..... Nope.
Care to travel over to here and I'll donate it happily .... haven't the heart to throw it out !!
It's had Silica Gel .... all sorts of Witches Concoctions in the box to stave off the evil brown ..... Nope.
Rabbie
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I was thinking of painting some of my tools with that 'plastic paint' stuff they sell for dipping ropes ends in to prevent fraying. It should stop rust forming - anyone know?.
peterb
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There's a paper product called BANRUST, which has a similar effect. Made in England !!! They are corrosion control specialists.
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We used to use a product called VPI paper (Vapour Phase Inhibitor). Wrapped the tools up in it, and got very little rusting. Is Banrust the same?
There's a paper product called BANRUST, which has a similar effect. Made in England !!! They are corrosion control specialists.
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We used to use a product called VPI paper (Vapour Phase Inhibitor). Wrapped the tools up in it, and got very little rusting. Is Banrust the same?
Danny Jo
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As a minder of tools that verges on the fanatical, I share Searush's penchant for oil. I have a pound of silica gel in a tin somewhere, but never got round to using it, largely because I wouldn't be able to choose whether to put it in with the woodworking chisels, the box of spanners, the plumbing gear, etc. And Mirelle's point is valid, particularly for a box that is opened regularly and kept on a damp boat (not just MABs like, erm, never mind, but also on PWBs subjected to occasional blasts from the Ebersmellmaker.
I used to think, but don't anymore, that steel could rust in the presence of water vapour alone. Have you noticed how the nails at the bottom of a dry, open-topped tin stay bright, while those on the surface rust; and how rusting is worse in the winter than the summer? Temperature variation and salt are the most important things to avoid. The first because a rise in ambient temperature may bring warm moist air into contact with cold steel, leading to condensation, and the second because of delicatess . . . , deliquenc . . ., deliquescencts . . . (now why did I throw away those school science books).
If tools are handled by salty hands, rinse with fresh water after use. Keep an oily rag in the tool box and wipe each tool every time you put it away. Keep the tool box somewhere not subject to rapid temperature change.
Mark
I used to think, but don't anymore, that steel could rust in the presence of water vapour alone. Have you noticed how the nails at the bottom of a dry, open-topped tin stay bright, while those on the surface rust; and how rusting is worse in the winter than the summer? Temperature variation and salt are the most important things to avoid. The first because a rise in ambient temperature may bring warm moist air into contact with cold steel, leading to condensation, and the second because of delicatess . . . , deliquenc . . ., deliquescencts . . . (now why did I throw away those school science books).
If tools are handled by salty hands, rinse with fresh water after use. Keep an oily rag in the tool box and wipe each tool every time you put it away. Keep the tool box somewhere not subject to rapid temperature change.
Mark