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http://www.impalas.net/forums/showthread.php?t=686&page=28

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While you are there, check out all 28 pages. This guy took a rusted 61 convertible and is re-building it. Very nice work. Can't wait to see it finished.

 

They have this stuff called Wax you put on your car to stop rust from coming back!
LOL

 

That car is here on the HAMB. I saw it posted awhile ago.

 

Does anyone know what this would do to chrome? I just put a set of old chrome reverse wheels on my Ranchero, they are in great shape except just a little rust down around the lug nuts that I can't seem to get off with steel wool.

 

I was just wondering the same thing...I don't see why it wouldn't work as well, or better. Chrome is very hard and the CLR just attacks the rust.

 

Pretty dam hard to belive ya can learn something after all these years but THANK YOU the hamb, the hamb ,the hamb, tanks 46 , rosco

 

hmmm!! my wife gave me about a half bottle of the stuff awhile back and I have no idea what she used it for. She just said, "I'm done with it you can have the rest". Now I'll have to find something to try it out on.

Frank

 

I bought a bottle some time ago, very light rust or stain comes off fairly quickly but heavy scale took multiple dip and scrapes, as far as using it in a flathead block it would take forever i would imagine and then since it says not to use on copper or brass you might ruin your head gaskets ? It will work ok in limited, specific ap's but its not the magic rust be gone we're lookin for and then you will have it to unclog your shower head!

 

i have an old hurst 4 speed shifter boot the type with the chrome metal piece in the top with the "H" cut out of it it had some rust on it so i poured a little CLR in a bowl and put the piece in it for a couple days the rust stains were gone and the chrome was unhurt except where the rust had eaten through it

.... never thought about trying it on rusty painted metal gonna have to now thanks for the tip

 

Like others said, It's acid. You need to neutralize it with vinegar or baking soda or it will keep eating away at your metal.

 

so how do you neutralize it? rub itdown with vinegar or baking soda after you clean it, or put that in the mix while you clean it?

 

Vinegar is acidic... how do you neutralize an acid with another acid? Is my chemistry that rusty? (Need some CLR for my brain apparently.)

 

CLR and then colored wax, be just like having a paint job.

 

I have used clr, electrolysis, oxalic acid, molasses and media blasting. While they all have their place and I like them all, you really should try Evapo-Rust. Safest Rust Remover seems to be the same type of thing but I can't get that around here.
Non-acidic, bio-degradable, paintable, non-toxic... safe stuff that works.
They use "Selective Chelation" (lots of chemistry talk) to attach to the rust and pull it off the good metal.
Go to www.safestrustremover.com and check out the "Full image slide show" on the left. It's amazing stuff.

 

hahahaha, Theres this even better stuff called paint that I find to work amazingly well but I dont want to be an out cast by admitting to its use.

 

It works well on chrome.... lots of guys "boil" radiators with it too. CLR and distilled H2O in the radiator, run the car for a couple hundred miles and flush. I have yet to personally use it as a radiator flush, but know a few guys that have. They swear by it.

 

Mix some baking soda with water and rinse it down after the CLR application.