[AT] Rust magic?

John johnwidener at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 6 07:01:04 PDT 2007


You all have heard this before...And it does work.....Water....... Rust
loves water and dissolves back into powder form when it gets wet....Just
make sure that when you take it out of the water you have some old oil in a
bucket to displace the water....

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www.rustreaper.com  This stuff really works

Greg Whittaker
Wolverine Mi


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From: "JParks" <jkparks at flash.net>
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Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:52 AM
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>I am looking for any suggestions or recommendations for a real rust buster.
>
> I have two sets of almost new TD6 track that sat on a machine for years 
> and
> all the joints were either really stiff or frozen.
>
> I have soaked all the joints w/ diesel, driven over them several times 
> with
> wheel loaders and even a track loader.  I presoaked them again with diesel
> and with the use of an excavator boom to hold each link down in sequence,
> and using the curl linkage, I hooked up to each link and was able to work
> each joint back and forth a little before moving down the chain to the 
> next
> link.  It is still too tight!
>
> I talked to an old (like me) crawler man who has run a track shop for
> decades (and he has "seen-it-all") and he does not think I should set them
> on fire.  He has run across track like this before and he could not even
> dismantle them without ruining or busting some of the individual links.
>
> What liquid rust breaker on the market will really work (vs. what is 
> simply
> marketed and does not work)!?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John Parks
> Boise, ID
>
>
>
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