03-04-2009, 07:28 AM
Acids reverse rust.
Tannic acid has long been used for gun blue and naval jelly preparations.
Oil acts as not only a barrier but also an anti-oxidant. (fatty acid)
If you can keep a metal object from tempurature swings, that will help.
Just keeping a 25 watt bulb on in you gun cabinet will keep metals a few degrees above ambient and will prevent condensation of water.
I make my own WD40 type stuff.
My recipe is 3/4 gal of mineral spirits (varsal) and 1 qt of Mobil-1 motor oil (new)
The Mobil-1 has some very advanced anti-rust chemicals.
As the paint thinner evaporates, it leaves a very thin coating of oil.
The 2 absolute best things I have found for boats, guns, etc are
Eezox and Fluid Film.
Fluid film is amazing.
I have heard of people pouring their used motor oil in a bucket of sand. They plunge their shovels, machetes etc. down in that oilly sand a few times after each used.
The sand abrades the surface rust and it leave a light coating of oil.
If you will wipe down your (black) aluminum BBQ pit with some veggie oil after use and it has cooled a bit, it will make it stay black and prevent the white oxidization spots from appearing.
Oh yeah, I sprits my table saw, drill presses, bandsaw tables, etc. with a little cold galvanizing paint and burnish it with some 0000 steel wool. The zinc particles behave as a micro cathodic protection.
You can use some automotive paste wax to make it last longer.
“The used key is always bright.” —Benjamin Franklin
Tannic acid has long been used for gun blue and naval jelly preparations.
Oil acts as not only a barrier but also an anti-oxidant. (fatty acid)
If you can keep a metal object from tempurature swings, that will help.
Just keeping a 25 watt bulb on in you gun cabinet will keep metals a few degrees above ambient and will prevent condensation of water.
I make my own WD40 type stuff.
My recipe is 3/4 gal of mineral spirits (varsal) and 1 qt of Mobil-1 motor oil (new)
The Mobil-1 has some very advanced anti-rust chemicals.
As the paint thinner evaporates, it leaves a very thin coating of oil.
The 2 absolute best things I have found for boats, guns, etc are
Eezox and Fluid Film.
Fluid film is amazing.
I have heard of people pouring their used motor oil in a bucket of sand. They plunge their shovels, machetes etc. down in that oilly sand a few times after each used.
The sand abrades the surface rust and it leave a light coating of oil.
If you will wipe down your (black) aluminum BBQ pit with some veggie oil after use and it has cooled a bit, it will make it stay black and prevent the white oxidization spots from appearing.
Oh yeah, I sprits my table saw, drill presses, bandsaw tables, etc. with a little cold galvanizing paint and burnish it with some 0000 steel wool. The zinc particles behave as a micro cathodic protection.
You can use some automotive paste wax to make it last longer.
“The used key is always bright.” —Benjamin Franklin