/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1540415
I bought a drill press at an estate sale. The deceased was a rebuilder of vintage cars and worked out of a large shop at their home. It had a full suite of stuff, not a single thing newer than the 1960s. The seller said a 3 gallon bucket full of rusty drill bits went with it. These were very large drill bits and had a Morse taper. Everything was rusty as fuck so I didn't bother digging through it and just loaded it into the truck. When I got home and unpacked it I found that it came with a huge number of lathe accessories. Either the seller didn't know what they were letting go of or didn't know it was in the bottom of the bucket. The drive back would have been another 25 minutes and it was the last day of the sale so I kept it all. Picture related is what I got minus about half the drill bits, which were soaking in Evaporust at the time. It all cleaned up okay and I had a nice thread about the clean up here back in July.

>>1441946
I did this a while back.

>>1421512

Evaporust works great. Electrolysis, as >>1441954 said, is also great but requires a bit more effort.

>>1441956
That just makes a mess. Oil is for protecting tools from rust. It doesn't do much after the rust already forms.

I bought a thing. It came with some rusty bullshit.