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    Quote Originally Posted by nadroj View Post
    Lanox is an alternative product to WD40 etc, has lanolin in it and is claimed to have a better rust preventive action.
    A bit more expensive, get it at Bunnings, auto shops etc - spray or brush on versions.
    thats a shame poor sheep

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    Quote Originally Posted by nadroj View Post
    Lanox is an alternative product to WD40 etc, has lanolin in it and is claimed to have a better rust preventive action.
    A bit more expensive, get it at Bunnings, auto shops etc - spray or brush on versions.
    WD40 has a very poor rust preventative action - pretty much anything else is better!
    Lanox is great stuff, but in my experience you end up with a slightly sticky surface after its been there for a while.
    I've been using a 50/50 blend of Acetone and ATF as a general penetrant mix and usually have a trigger bottle of it handy, so generally anything that needs a bit of rust preventative cops a squirt of that. Its the ATF that does the protecting - the acetone is just a carrier. Only downside is ATF stinks - but it works well and the price is right. Seems to last pretty well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OxxAndBert View Post
    WD40 has a very poor rust preventative action - pretty much anything else is better!

    you reckon, surly not salt water??

    Lanox is great stuff, but in my experience you end up with a slightly sticky surface after its been there for a while.
    I've been using a 50/50 blend of Acetone and ATF as a general penetrant mix and usually have a trigger bottle of it handy, so generally anything that needs a bit of rust preventative cops a squirt of that. Its the ATF that does the protecting - the acetone is just a carrier. Only downside is ATF stinks - but it works well and the price is right. Seems to last pretty well.

    Steve

    ho steve.
    what transmition oil do you use. have you found that the oil is not soluble in Acetone. Are you using new or used tranmition oil??

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    New oil, just cheap dextron 3 type oil as it’s what I had lying around. It separates from the acetone, but a quick shake gets it mixed again.

    Steve

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    After sandblasting or electrolysis with oxylic or citric acid to remove rust from old tools, I spray them with silicon dry lube and just let them sit until it has dried. lasts for years.

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    I saw a russian engineer. in mexico. clean up a heap of rusty tools . sockets ect in a pot of river sand vibrated on a upturned orbital sander.
    It worked great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by azzrock View Post
    I saw a russian engineer. in mexico. clean up a heap of rusty tools . sockets ect in a pot of river sand vibrated on a upturned orbital sander. worked great.
    I’ve never tried it but I believe it works well for small parts using an ultrasonic cleaner and very fine sand or jewelers grits, and provided they are not left too long they actually come out polished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by azzrock View Post
    thats a shame poor sheep
    Yeah, sure. But have you ever seen a rusty ram?

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    SWMBO has a Lot-O-tumbler, a vibratory rock tumbling machine for polishing rocks and glass. It's a 150 mm diameter, thick round rubber container with a hole in the top that sits in a steel frame that is attached to an off centre motor that vibrates the bejesus out of whatever is in the container. The vibrations create this continuous swirling roil of the contents. Depending on what size grit is used it can round over rocks through to polish them to a decent finish. It's VERY quick compared to a standard rotary tumbler. She hardly ever uses it - maybe that would be worth a go?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    SWMBO has a Lot-O-tumbler
    I actually have a Lyman 1200 Pro Turbo Tumbler for cleaning rifle cases ... but the media is reasonably expensive and I'm not clean on contaminating it with rust and oil. Vibratory tumblers do work brilliantly though.

    Your Lot-O Tumbler looks pretty heavy duty by comparison. Makes sense given I rarely want to "round over" my rifle cases

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    ha that looks like it. what i saw was a Russian/mexican dockside version of that.
    aaron

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    The lotto tumbler works with a wide range of weird polishing materials. I’ve even heard of some one using used coffee grounds which we have plenty of at our place as we go through about 3kg of coffee a month. Keeping the grounds from going mould is on the challenging side, maybe putting the straight into a sealed container is worth a try.

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    Hi Guys,

    My wife and I don't drink much coffee nowadays, in fact she doesn't drink tea or coffee at all !

    In the days that we did, she used to put the grounds in a biscuit tin and after finishing her baking, roasting or whatever, put the biscuit tin in the oven while it cooled. The net result was dry cakes of material that she mixed with compost and used to plant her seeds and bulbs in pots. It never went mouldy ! In fact on occasions there was a nice coffee odor in the kitchen.
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