/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Coke or mountain dew work pretty well

sand or soda blast it.

Angle grinder + wire wheel.

you don't OP

just rub it down with vegtible oil in between uses.It will tern black and the rust will never be noticed again

lightly sand it, then OSPHO. Give it a couple days, then give it another quick sand.

Dats a nice old Vermont castings op. I'm the installer for a local fireplace shop. I wire wheel them down, clean up with denatured alcohol, then paint with stove black.


One of their defiant style blowers and heat shields should mount to that.


Curious as to what you gave for it.

Also check it for air tight. Plug the flue collar,make sure primary air is closed,and ash pan door if equipped. Light a ball of paper inside let it extinguish itself and see if any smoke leaks.
If it does replace rope gasket,and stove mortar seals as necessary.

>>506577
black paint seems to work wonders.

I'd say find someone to sandblast it. My mom did that with an old wood stove and it looks great.

This is a no bullshit answer for this, also I restore antique cast iron cookware this way.

1. Find a plastic container or tank large enough to hold the stove. You can also do this in sections, so it doesn't have to hold the whole thing. Put the stove into the container.
2. Fill the container with water.
3. Find 2 scrap pieces of iron and make sure they're relatively rust free.
4. Suspend the 2 pieces of scrap iron in the container on either side of the stove. (I use 2 individual hangars wrapped around 2 individual lawn mower blades and I suspend them from a piece of 1x1 wood.)
5. Being serious here... hook each piece of scrap iron up to a battery charger. A positive lead to one piece of scrap and the negative to another.
6. This is very important... Double check that your scrap iron is not in contact with the stove.
7. Set the battery charger to the lowest setting and apply power.

It will take a few hours depending on the amount of rust. The water around the scrap iron will bubble lightly and the water will eventually turn disgusting. However, this is a super cheap way to restore the finish without harming the iron underneath.

When you do get all of the rust off, get the stove hot for several hours and then let it cool, apply a coat of vegetable oil as previously stated by another anon.

>>508019
Use Naval jelly or some other chemical rust converter it's way easier than all this shit. Btw for this guy, you don't need two leads just a connection to one lead and the other connection to the piece (stove) itself. Also add washing soda to the water to improve it's electrolytic capacity

>>508019
This is exactly the same method used to remove tarnish from salvaged coins from shipwrecks. Electrolysis ftw.

Thats fucking glorious OP. I would also like to know who's child you swapped for it.

Also, third vote for electrolysis >>508019. This is how I restore old drill presses and other big shop tool parts for repaint.

remove rust with steel brush, gives the nicest suface.
then paint it with linseed oil and heat it up to very hot. bit smelly.
makes a dark antirust sealing. old approved treatment.

>then paint with stove black.

screw you

>>508019

creaming myself at the thought of using electrolysis to restore something and someone asking me how I did it

to the layman you'd sound very professional

>>508164
>to the layman you'd sound very professional

I'm wondering myself if this is a /b/ troll giving us the /diy/ equivalent of bleach+ammonia=crystals. But I've got some rusty and some new steel chunks and a battery charger, so I might try.

>>508550
It works, just make sure you put the correct polarity for the anode and the cathode.

It also takes a lot of amperes.

>>508550

Poster of the electrolysis here. This really works, and I tried to remember the correct name for it, i.e. electrolysis, so you guys could look it up for further info, but couldn't remember for the life of me.

Props to the guys who named it.

OP, have you done anything with this yet?

>>508161
If you don't apply a coating of sorts, its just gonna rust again.

Giant tub full of white vinegar and fully submerge it. Let it sit 24 hours and then you can wipe the rust off with a super fine steel wool.

Really is the best way to go. The acid won't touch the unoxidized metal.

electrolysis and then chrome plate it.

On a related note, how do I remove rust from THIS cooker?
If its hard to see its on plates themselves.
I will replace it (Smaller plate takes ~30 minutes for a roiling boil) but I would like to clean it.

>>510136
disassemble and soak the rusted parts in white vinegar.

>>510136
thats the thing, you CANNOT buy white vinegar or any sort of vinegar in Denmark. I have search everywhere-

>>510181
you have open borders. time to go to Germoney.

>>510183
I had the chance to go today too..
Ah well, rusty cooker for the next couple of months it seems.

>>510181

Vinegar = "Eddike"
white vinegar = "lager eddike"

If you want the undiluted stuff you should look for "carboxylsyre".

You are welcome.

>>510204
Ah, thanks, really appreciate that.

>>510204

Although "carboxylsyre" is an appropriate chemical name for organic acids it is normally just called "eddikesyre" or "ethansyre" and is sold in a 32 % concentration in most supermarkets. "eddikesyre" is CH3COOH.

>>510181
Ausbro here, why can't you buy white vinegar there? Thats.. Odd..?

wire brush ..then stove black

>>510542
I was told vinegar wasnt "in their culture".

>>510542

You can easily buy vinegar in Denmark. All supermarkets have it. You can get both brown and white versions and they are approx. 5 % acid. They are cheap as well. 1 dollar pr liter or so.

I thought the Danes were well into pickling

Is that not the case?

>>510136
Shit man, i got that same thing, and was wondering too. Parents moved into a new home and the previous owner left literally *tons* of old tools and fixtures that are horribly rusted. Already cleaned up a few things with WD40 and a brass brush.

For electrical shit though, i wouldnt trust it... Unless you're willing to re-wire it, probably smart to just toss it.

>>510713
We are.

yea a couple people said it, veggie or olive oil

been using a wood stove in the winter my whole life

>>510818
hmm, what the solution instructions for baking stuff + white vinegar?
Do you go 1 part water for 1 part baking stuff? then put white vinegar on it to get it off?

>>512301
Just last night, I tried baking soda (sodium bicarbonate; baking powder has other stuff, would probably also work but you will need more by volume).

About 20 parts water and 1 part baking soda worked well for some seriously rusted-out stuff. This is by volume. I just filled boxes with water and added baking soda until the bottom of 4 inches or so of water was cloudy.

I also had a motor's mounting thingy that was rusted. Couldn't submerge it in water, so I made a very thick paste with very little water. It caked overnight, so the reaction removing iron rust stopped at some early point. Easy to remove, though. Most of the rust from the part was removed, but there were obvious areas where there was nothing but an air pocket, so so rust was removed from those little pockets. This would be more effective if you took a little bag, stuffed it with baking soda and a bit of water (sufficient so the entire thing doesn't evaporate overnight), and tied it around whatever part with tape or something.

I also heard you can use a potato with some type of oil.

Hydrochloric acid. Same shit Brick layers use to clean bricks.

>>513242
Muriatic acid is 4 bricklayers. Acid on ferrous metal? Bye bye metal. Delete system32 while you are at it.