Recycling old implements - making them pretty

[workinprogress]

I have had pretty good luck with using a wire brush on a angle grinder and then follow with a "Rust Reformer" made by Rust-Oleum ( RustOleum.com ). Can find it at most auto parts store. The rust reformer converts the rust into some thing else (forming a black primer). I have used multiple paints onto this primer and they all seem to hold well.

Good luck with your projects.

 

[ctgoldwing]

Sometimes I do it the easy way--use a rust converter to change the rust layer to a tightly bonded layer that acts as a primer over which you can paint. Gemplers makes one brand of RC--there are others

Gempler's Rust Converter Success Stories | Gempler's

Here's an example. I restored an old Minneapolis Moline P3-6 grain drill last year.

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The feed cups were rusted pretty badly.

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I used Gempler's RC on the cup housings and the fluted feed cylinders. The black coating on the flutes is Gempler's. I sprayed the housings with cold galvanize spray paint to prevent more rusting.

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I used that restored grain drill last month to plant 5 acres of Kanota oats. The drill worked fine.

Hey thanks to all for the great advise! I had the racks of the '97 F350 I just acquired painted at a local body shop & I'm pretty sure he talked about a 'rust converter' instead of sanding / grinding & painting (I told him this was a budget job). It came out GREAT.

I picked up (today from ebay) a skid steer plow that had been used one year & stored 2. The paint has mostly peeled off from being outside but all in all it really doesn't look bad. I will probably pull the hydraulics off it & replace them with a welded up pinned stop assembly - my plowing needs are really basic here at the house & a fixed angle will work fine.

I'll try to take pix as I go.

I really do appreciate all the info. Thanks again & hope everyone has a great & healthy new year!

 

[JohninCT]

I picked up (today from ebay) a skid steer plow... that had been used one year & stored 2. The paint has mostly peeled off from being outside but all in all it really doesn't look bad. I will probably pull the hydraulics off it & replace them with a welded up pinned stop assembly - my plowing needs are really basic here at the house & a fixed angle will work fine

Are you talking about just one fixed angle or a manually adjustable angle? Its seems kind of a shame to ditch the hydraulics especially if they are in useable shape. Do you have a rear remote? Have you scoped out what it would take to get the hydraulics hooked up? You could make a manually adjustable angle using the square tube with punched holes (I call it stop sign post). Replace the hyd cylinders with a tube within a tube secured together with a pin. I don't know, maybe this is what you already had in mind.

 

[ctgoldwing]

Are you talking about just one fixed angle or a manually adjustable angle? Its seems kind of a shame to ditch the hydraulics especially if they are in useable shape. Do you have a rear remote? Have you scoped out what it would take to get the hydraulics hooked up? You could make a manually adjustable angle using the square tube with punched holes (I call it stop sign post). Replace the hyd cylinders with a tube within a tube secured together with a pin. I don't know, maybe this is what you already had in mind.

Hi John,

The tube within a tube is exactly what I had in mind. I won't do anything that can't be 'reversed' - I'll be able to put back on the hydraulics. I don't know enough about hydraulics to know whether I can use my tractor's or not but from what I have read here it doesn't sound like I can without changing the loader valve - Too much $$$ right now.

 

[studor]

The other way to remove the rust is washing soda in water, a sacrifice rod, a container big enough to hold the item in the soda and water and a battery charger Hook the positive to the sacrifice rod, the negative to the item and let it go for a day or two. I think there is a post on here somewhere that this was done to a plow prior to painting