Thread: Advice Sought Regarding Rust Removal From Cast Iron Table

Good morning/evening/night Ladies & Gentlemen
I recently purchased a Woodman (Australian) TS160 which was manufactured in 1996 with the motor receiving a complete rebuild in 2011. It had some surface rust which I removed using WD-40, Scotchbrite pads and some very fine grit sandpaper. Fortunately, I reside in Western Australia which does not experience frequent humidity. There are two questions I would like answered:
a. What is the Australian equivalent of the U.S. Mineral Spirits, and
b. What product do fellow members recommended to seal the table after rust removal? Internet research indicates it should not contain silicone.

Regards and thanks in advance

Originally Posted by Becephalus

Good morning/evening/night Ladies & Gentlemen
I recently purchased a Woodman (Australian) TS160 which was manufactured in 1996 with the motor receiving a complete rebuild in 2011. It had some surface rust which I removed using WD-40, Scotchbrite pads and some very fine grit sandpaper. Fortunately, I reside in Western Australia which does not experience frequent humidity. There are two questions I would like answered:
a. What is the Australian equivalent of the U.S. Mineral Spirits, and
b. What product do fellow members recommended to seal the table after rust removal? Internet research indicates it should not contain silicone.

Regards and thanks in advance

a. White Spirits, (available from any hardware store).
b. Most use either paste wax or SilverGlide (SilberGleit): http://www.carbatec.com.au/main_page...rd/silverglide
Personally, I use SilverGlide.

c. This isn't really the appropriate place to post this question, but I'm sure it will be re-located to a suitable section.

Originally Posted by Becephalus

Good morning/evening/night Ladies & Gentlemen
I recently purchased a Woodman (Australian) TS160 which was manufactured in 1996 with the motor receiving a complete rebuild in 2011. It had some surface rust which I removed using WD-40, Scotchbrite pads and some very fine grit sandpaper. Fortunately, I reside in Western Australia which does not experience frequent humidity. There are two questions I would like answered:
a. What is the Australian equivalent of the U.S. Mineral Spirits, and

Mineral or regular turpentine (not gum turpentine).
White Spirit is chemically the same as Turps but it sounds superior and allows manufacturers to chart more.

b. What product do fellow members recommended to seal the table after rust removal? Internet research indicates it should not contain silicone.

I have used paste wax and turps. It leaves the surface nice and smooth but does not seem to last that long
Recently I have been using lanotech grease and turps and that seems to last longer but leaves the surface a little tacky but it doesn't seem to upset operations or wood.

Originally Posted by BobL

Mineral or regular turpentine (not gum turpentine).

You're right Bob. I was confused by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spirit , which obviously needs correcting.
Further reading corrected me.

Originally Posted by Hermit

You're right Bob. I was confused by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spirit , which obviously needs correcting.
Further reading corrected me.

Somewhere on the Metalwork forum there is a long and swtailed thread on this. Turps and WS are a sort of cocktail of "stuff" with no fixed composition.
MSDS sheets may show different constituents but some of that is due to chemical manufacturers not being fussy (because they don't need to be) about what mixing tanks have in them before the "Turps" was mixed in there.
For International trade purposes there are 4 different types of White Spirit based on the proportion of certain chemicals but for practical WW use purposes they are the same.

Originally Posted by BobL

Somewhere on the Metalwork forum there is a long and swtailed thread on this. Turps and WS are a sort of cocktail of "stuff" with no fixed composition.
MSDS sheets may show different constituents but some of that is due to chemical manufacturers not being fussy (because they don't need to be) about what mixing tanks have in them before the "Turps" was mixed in there.
For International trade purposes there are 4 different types of White Spirit based on the proportion of certain chemicals but for practical WW use purposes they are the same.

I just had a look at the MSDS for White Spirits and the PDS for Mineral Turpentine, both Diggers.

WS: Low Aromatic White Spirit
MT: Low-aromatic, white-spirit hydrocarbon solvent

Easy to see why 'for practical WW use purposes they are the same'.

Thank you fellow members for your advice and information.

Hermit: No offence intended but as I was seeking advice (Help), I believed my request was best placed in the "Help" Forum.

Originally Posted by Becephalus

Thank you fellow members for your advice and information.

Hermit: No offence intended but as I was seeking advice (Help), I believed my request was best placed in the "Help" Forum.

No offense taken.
(But this section is really for help relating to the forums themselves, rather than help in general. An easy mistake to make.)
Personally, I'm not fussy, it's all the same to me. I was only trying to help by pointing it out.