EVAPORUST

[RON]

Gents, I finally got my hands on a bottle of EVAPORUST that a friend brought me from good old Canadian Tire!

As cleared with some of you before, I guess cleaning grey-oxidised M15 pickelhaube metal fittings shouldn't damage zinc-coating, right?

What about swords? Would it damage nickel-plated blades? What about brass, gilted or nickel-plated hilts & handles?

For instance, I have this old heavily pitted Ottoman Kindjal. How could I dip it in Evaporust without damaging the (wooden) handle? Would rubbing/scrubbing be more efficient as opposed to soaking?

 

[poniatowski]

No idea, RON. sorry. Maybe they have a web site?

Ron

 

[usa1918]

I have gone through a couple of gallons on the stuff for my grenades that I have been restoring. I tried it first on an Arcade cast iron toy corn planter with surface rust and about 80% paint and nickel wheels. Overnight soak in a bucket, cleaned the rust off completely with no harm to the nickel wheels or the paint. I do think you need to soak the part tho. And they do have a website. And Gus, yes I will be posting the grenades on your thread on ordinance soon

Keith (usa1918)

 

[joerookery]

EVAPORUST

Long long ago there was a thread on this stuff. Maybe even in the old forum. While I know nothing about the product I can still see myself sitting in a board room while some young guy pitches this product and the name. I just could not of approved the name. They should have called it lame-o.

 

[RON]

Hello everyone; hope you had a good weekend.

I recently bought a line pickelhaube spitze from Brian through eBay. It was quite rusty and I soaked it overnight in EVAPORUST. Here's the result before, during--you can see the contrast between the submerged part and the rest--, and after treatment:

Looks quite nice after doesn't it? Beware though as it seems oversoaking would eventually remove the zinc-coating as it happened with the left spike in the 2nd photo above.

 

[ebeeby]

Astonishing. Hmmmm.