Rusty Chain - want to clean and protect a little

[N80]

I drag mine around in the creekbed sand. Cleans them right up.

 

[milkman]

Anybody else have a "Favorite" chain? I have a short (10-15 foot) chain that I use all the time. Leave it on floorboard of me skidloader for easy access. My friends think I'm F'n nutz having a Favorite Chain. I'd be lost without it.

Definitely have my favorite, loaned it out once and it came back with some links stretched, but it's still my favorite. Have two others, same size and length, but they're just not the same personality.

 

[unreconstructed]

The U.S. Army bent my brain--if it doesn't move I paint it.

I thin a quart of Rusolteum gloss black in a plastic oil drain pan--get a pair of
rubber gloves and dip my chains in the paint--swirl them around a bit, and hang them up to dry on the A frame I built for my dirt bikes. I paint the hooks
JD green.

The paint chips off with use so when I am painting shovels, grubbing hoes, binders, my dogs (not really) I give the chains a bath.

Probably not the best method, but I get a kick out of it and I think I have new stuff for a while. Controls the buying impulse and I really, really hate rusty anything.

 

[Rara Avis]

Actually you shouldn't paint a chain, because the you can't perform a visual inspection to determine if structural deformation or cracks are taking place...

 

[MrJimi]

I have some rusty chain I will try to clean up this weekend, here are the pictures of rusty chain here
Jim

 

[silverdollar6]

Chain is supposed to be rusty.

 

[EastTnFarmboy]

An interesting thread, but all I can say is that you folks could be doing something with your tractors with all that time you're spending worrying about fancying up your chains.

 

[sandman2234]

I think mine are fancy when I pick them up and hang them on the weights on the front of the tractor, or actually put them in the garage. Otherwise, they have been known to lay outside for months at a time.
David from jax

 

[patrick_g]

You can toss a rusty chain into a cement mixer with some sand and it will be much more thoroughly cleaned than dragging it will ever accomplish. This will clean them very well indeed but how are you going to keep them from rusting that won't be a PITA to repeat/touch up or that won't get you as dirty with oil and dirt as the rust would have done?

Pat

 

[escavader]

You can toss a rusty chain into a cement mixer with some sand and it will be much more thoroughly cleaned than dragging it will ever accomplish.

Pat

Might be true,but its more fun to drag them down a dirt road at 45 miles per hour on an atv PLus it smooths the road too
ALAN