Rust removers
Le Mans Master
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a lot depends on where the rust is, how close is any paint, etc...they also have products that will convert the rust back to paint-able metal. if you could post how much you're trying to cure , you could get better info.
hope this helps
hope this helps
Burning Brakes
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Burning Brakes
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From: Naperville Illinois
As stated, the commercial rust converters use phosphoric acid or an equivalent, but they also incorporate some sort of coating agent. I use a product called "One-Step" which is 35% vinyl acrylic resin. Put on one coat and you can paint right over it and be done, or you can apply mutliple coats and sand it before painting. I hardly use my blast cabinet anymore, because even with priming and painting over the bare metal, I find rust tends to come back whereas with the One Step it just doesn't. Chassis Black and Cast Blast are my preferred topcoats; you can do just about everything on a Vette with those two paints...
Le Mans Master
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From: Livonia MI
Although never actually used the stuff myself, there's Armor's Metal Rescue, that looks pretty good. One of the weekend car TV shows demo'd the stuff, and looks to be pretty good. Check the Metal Rescue website, as has the video.
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Pro
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From: Carlstadt NJ
Hi, The part is the A arm. After sandblasting it there is still a little rust here and there. So as not to go crazy trying to get every little bit of rust off using the blaster I was thinking of a secondary operation to dip it into a bath of some kind of deslover to finish it off before painting.
Le Mans Master
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there a a lot of products that work well including the ones posted. I've used eastwood's and a few others, here;s a pretty good link
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...FwmqwArvY3d2UQ
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...FwmqwArvY3d2UQ
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I've been having good luck with a product called "Ready Strip" available at the hardware store.
It is organic and not nearly as "harsh" as phosphoric acid. Just takes a little bit (couple sprays) and some steel wool to go from:
to:
It is organic and not nearly as "harsh" as phosphoric acid. Just takes a little bit (couple sprays) and some steel wool to go from:
to:
Melting Slicks
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From: Damascus MD
Rust Removal
I use Bill Hirsch Rust remover. Sure it is private branded for him but I like it better than evapo-rust.
Plus Bill is a great guy and takes excellent care of his employees.
Bill L.
No relation whatsoever.
Plus Bill is a great guy and takes excellent care of his employees.
Bill L.
No relation whatsoever.
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