[AJD] Calcium Chloride in wheels, How to deal with it

[Steve Treimer]

Chris,
You can't neutralize the Calcium Chloride whatsoever, it's a salt, lots of it found in seawater.  The best you can hope for is to rinse the living daylights out of your rims, but I have been told that the calcium salt gets into the rust pits and aggravates a bad situation further.  I can imagine a sandblasting/grinding followed by tremendous washing and soaking if you can do it, wouldn't get most of the calcium salt washed out of the pores.  If after doing all that completely sealing out oxygen on both sides of the rim (to keep the oxygen away from the iron) using vinyl wash or phosphate treatment, priming, and painting would be the limits I would go to before buying new rims.
FWIW,
Steve

Chris C <jdnutinwa at yahoo.com> wrote:
howdy all,

I have two tractors (4 rear wheels) that are filled with Calcium, I am planning on dismounting the tires, cleaning them out, sandblasitng the wheels, and putting new tubes in. I am wondering if anyone has ever used a chemical treatment of some sort to neutralize the Calcium Chloride? On my JD 40 I sandblasted the rear wheels and painted them as well as bought new tired and tubes, now, serveral years later, I can see signs of the calcium causing the wheels to rust. (This tractor has been stored inside) Anyone have the solution to getting rid of the calcium once and for all?

Chris


---------------------------------
Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items.
_______________________________________________
Antique-johndeere mailing list
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/antique-johndeere