[Jacques Reed]

Without belaboring this thread I have been a huge fan of molasses rust removal since I heard about it 25 years ago.

Ratio if water to molasses is not critical. I have used 1:1, 2:1 and even 4:1 and it still eats away the rust but perhaps at different speeds.

Always best to remove as much heavy rust as possible before soaking, by wire brush and even a scaling hammer if needs be, as in the case of the rims shown.

In the case of those wheels I took them out after a fortnight, hit them with the Gerni which removed most of the rust and put back in the tank for another week or two for the final clean.

Some myths are around that it eats steel. It does not, but because it is a thorough clean of all the pitting in the steel the misbelief is that it has eaten away some of it.

I had one set of wheels sandblasted and another I did in molasses. The rust removal of all the rust was far superior in the ones done in molasses.