Is boiled linseed oil a useful rust preventative for seasonal implements stored outdoors?

[Williy]

You could always use spray cans of Rust-Oleum

willy

 

[5030]

How about used motor oil instead?

 

[nyone]

Boiled linseed oil preserves wood tool handles and trailer boards.
I don’t think use on metal will work.

It hardly even does that just like thompsons water seal. Boiled linseed oil causes mold. Mold means water is getting to the wood and this causes rot or high maintenance of wood.

For metal use woolwax or fluid film.

 

[the old grind]

Penetrol MSDS

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[5030]

I've found a little mentioned use for Fluid Film... Makes an excellent corrosion preventer for battery terminal connections and ground lug connections on equipment and much less expensive than the commercial red battery terminal corrosion preventer sold in AP stores.

 

[CalG]

I've found a little mentioned use for Fluid Film... Makes an excellent corrosion preventer for battery terminal connections and ground lug connections on equipment and much less expensive than the commercial red battery terminal corrosion preventer sold in AP stores.

I've always use Vaseline.

It's not objectionable when it gets on your skin. Handling battery terminals is just a matter of when. ;-)

 

[5030]

Vaseline requires you to manually spread it with your fingers so it's messy. Fluid Film on the other hand you can spray on so no gooey fingers and the included straw allows you to pinpoint the spray as well and it comes in black as well and batteries are mostly black too. Blends right in. I use it on the underside of my mower decks for winter storage as well (after cleaning the stuck on 'cud' off. That cud turns acidic and rots the deck eventually, especially those thin stamped ones like come on cheaper mowers... and Arly's EGO electric mower as well...lol

 

[Snobdds]

My grandfather use to soak equipment in new motor oil and then drive down the long driveway road to get as much dust on it as possible.

That metal stuff never rusted.

He even did it to his trucks. A light thin coat of oil and dust is the natures rust preventive.

 

[5030]

On the underside of my New Holland disc bine I use it as well. That or diesel fuel mixed with gear oil and sprayed on using a refillable spray can. The underside of a disc bine is subject to a lot of abrasion from the very cutting and crimping action it imparts to hay and it's important to keep the swinging knife blades swinging on their pivots as well. Basically like a brush hog but with lots of smaller swinging blades, in my case 20 sets of them.

 

[CalG]

Vaseline requires you to manually spread it with your fingers so it's messy. Fluid Film on the other hand you can spray on so no gooey fingers and the included straw allows you to pinpoint the spray as well and it comes in black as well and batteries are mostly black too. Blends right in. I use it on the underside of my mower decks for winter storage as well (after cleaning the stuck on 'cud' off. That cud turns acidic and rots the deck eventually, especially those thin stamped ones like come on cheaper mowers... and Arly's EGO electric mower as well...lol

I grew up in a family that use vaseline as skin softener and hand cream.

I guess I don't even think of it as something messy, I just rub it in. ;-)

Fluid Film on the other hand....

YUCKKKKK!

;-)