You should look into a compound that contains phosphorus acid. Or just a container of phosphoric acid itself. Dipping rusty metal into phosphoric acid will cause it to eat the acid and convert the remainder into an inert substance. As a extra precaution you can rent the item in a soda solution to neutralize any acid once you have gotten it cleaned
Evaporust works but if you want to do a lot of this, it can get pricey.. The disadvantage to using a grinding wheel is that if you cut through the hardened surface of most tools they will re-rust very very easily in the future. As a side note the wax grinding compound is loaded with abrasives. Not sure you want that in the hinge joints. Wax is good, just not that kind... :)
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You should look into a compound that contains phosphorus acid. Or just a container of phosphoric acid itself. Dipping rusty metal into phosphoric acid will cause it to eat the acid and convert the remainder into an inert substance. As a extra precaution you can rent the item in a soda solution to neutralize any acid once you have gotten it cleaned
I have seen that method in those vintage restoration videos. There are definitely many ways to the same goal.
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You could actually do a pretty good job simply soaking it in vinegar preferably cleaning vinegar, and then neutralizing it with soda once clean
Yes, I have seen the Evaporust method as well.
Evaporust works but if you want to do a lot of this, it can get pricey.. The disadvantage to using a grinding wheel is that if you cut through the hardened surface of most tools they will re-rust very very easily in the future. As a side note the wax grinding compound is loaded with abrasives. Not sure you want that in the hinge joints. Wax is good, just not that kind... :)