[AT] Rust magic?

[Larry D Goss]

The commercial product I have seen for this purpose uses beet sugar molasses 
mixed with water.  I think it's called "Rustbeeter".

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <msm10301 at juno.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Rust magic?


> What about water mixed with molasses? Someone posted a while ago
> about how this mixture would remove rust from an old engine block.
> Mike
>
> -- "JParks" <jkparks at flash.net> wrote:
> 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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