[AT] Rust magic?

Howard Fleming hfleming at moosebird.net
Sun May 6 05:57:17 PDT 2007


You might give Kroil a try (http://www.kanolabs.com/).  I have had 
pretty good luck with it.

Hope this helps,
Howard


JParks 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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