Richie's Mk1 Restoration

[D Ellery]

Not having access to a sand blaster and tired of hanging onto a angle grinder for hours on end I came across this process here on MLU. Awesome process! while you sleep it does away with rust and in the morning you just waterblast the gunk off and your away. I use a plastic water trough (farm type) which holds about 60 ltrs. I've been able to derust my carrier boggie's as a whole unit, boggie wheels, cross shaft and many other large parts. I did try some track sections but found that you have to wire up each individual track link as the contact between the links wasn't that good. Its a great tool and would highly recommend it over other methods. Cheers David.

[George McKenzie]

Originally Posted by D Ellery

Not having access to a sand blaster and tired of hanging onto a angle grinder for hours on end I came across this process here on MLU. Awesome process! while you sleep it does away with rust and in the morning you just waterblast the gunk off and your away. I use a plastic water trough (farm type) which holds about 60 ltrs. I've been able to derust my carrier boggie's as a whole unit, boggie wheels, cross shaft and many other large parts. I did try some track sections but found that you have to wire up each individual track link as the contact between the links wasn't that good. Its a great tool and would highly recommend it over other methods. Cheers David.

I made a sand blaster out of a 32" truck sleeper You can do things up to 6 ft long .right in the shop no dust and you don't lose the sand. I use glass beads in mine .I put it on wheels ,uses 85 lbs of air pressure and could be shared by more than one person Cost me $ 300There is an article about it in ARMY MOTORS 125 the MVPA magazine .

[Aidan]

I heard that you can strap your gas tanks on a farm tractor wheel or outside on a stationary sement mixer,add sum round peebles in the gas tank as the wheel rotates it'll clean up the inners of the gas tank. Nice shinny internal gas tank ready for sum POR gas tank lining. Aidan

[eddy8men]

thanks for all the technical info guys, it's always good to learn new things but to be honest it's beyond my tiny little minds ability to absorb so much tech stuff so i'll stick to hitting my tracks with a big hammer, it freed mine up a treat and it had the added bonus of giving my fat arse a good workout.

eddy

[Aidan]

Eddyman Also it is said you can soak your tracks in molassas, i guess the acid eats away the rust,also Coke a cola.


Aidan

[RichardT10829]

Molassas do work very well however over a longer period of time, circa two weeks for larger items. Coca Cola contains citric acid which does clean. You can make a vat with 3 %citric acid and soak the item you then have to take it out after 24hours wire brush it then soak for another 24 hours, then wirebrush / jet wash the oxidised waste from the metal. it works well but you have to really flush he steel properly then use a heat gun or blow torch to heat the metal and thoroughly dry it out otherwise it oxidises very quickly.

here is a good demo of this process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckdMdiJlV7c

and likewise a good example of results from an electrolysis bath for large items... this one is four parts and the link i have put is part four

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nmK...D41B7&index=18

[gary_bath_jr]

Hey Richard

Thanks for those links, I checked out some of the other vids there and found some showing the Strong Arm Sprays to remove rust, that produst looks pretty amazing to remove rust from everything.

Gary