Take it all off

PineRidge · Nov 13, 2006

Glowplug said:
Yeah, I know. I was just makin' a funny. Looking forward to the pictures. You don't happen to have any without the primer, when all the rust was removed after brewing in the soup do you?

Glowplug here's a picture of the blade once taken out of the soup and hit with a pressure washer. Bare metal needs to be primed almost immediately or surface rust will start to form.

Sorry I didn't post sooner but free time around here lately is a real premium.

JASTN70D · Nov 13, 2006

Hey,

I thought this post was about your haircut !!!

Looks good, You know every time I've used it was on really badly pit-ed stuff. It gets the rust but hard to describe it as looking new Sometimes holes show up in your project

Someone asked about paint removal, Ive always had good luck with it removing the paint but then the paint was in bad shape before it went in to the bath.

How are you going to apply paint ?

PineRidge · Nov 13, 2006

JASTN70D said:
Hey,

I thought this post was about your haircut !!!

Looks good, You know every time I've used it was on really badly pit-ed stuff. It gets the rust but hard to describe it as looking new Sometimes holes show up in your project

Someone asked about paint removal, Ive always had good luck with it removing the paint but then the paint was in bad shape before it went in to the bath.

How are you going to apply paint ?

Nothing fancy John, brush on the primer, and follow with a coat or two of NH blue. Electrolysis will not remove base metal, so if the project had a hole that was plugged with rust then it will show up. Otherwise you will be good to go.

Maine_Polack · Nov 13, 2006

Have always found the A & H Washing Soda in our local grocery store.

A couple of ole' timely uses for it:

Sprinkle on rugs/floors and let sit for Hour(s). We have even let it sit overnight. Then vaccum it up. This will kill fleas and their eggs, and who knows what else

Anb it is pretty long lasting. Apparently there is residue that remains after the clean-up. Te most we do it is 2x year. Mostly once a year.

Many years ago had a long time plummer tell me that when things clog up in pipes etc. on a regular basis, he recommended mixing Washing Soda with hot water and dumping it down the drains before bedtime. Upon rising run the hot water for a while. It works.

Glowplug · Nov 13, 2006

Are you gonna do any base metal prep (sanding, grinding, brushing, etc.) before applying the primer or is it pretty well prepped with the rust removed?

PineRidge · Nov 13, 2006

Glowplug said:
Are you gonna do any base metal prep (sanding, grinding, brushing, etc.) before applying the primer or is it pretty well prepped with the rust removed?

Glowplug there's no rust now, and there's no grease or oil since it's been in the washing soda for better than a week. I already gave it a good hose down with the pressure washer so I should be good to go with the bare-metal primer.

johnnylight · Nov 15, 2006

Great post .
thanks for sharing.

Got to save this one WOW--too cool.

Cliff_Johns · Nov 25, 2006

Restoration posts are the best. Thanks for taking the time to photograph your progress. Looking forward to the finish blue. You will need a spiffy decal though.

Cliff

JimMorrissey · Nov 27, 2006

Pine....Cool Man. That's a great experiment and looks like it works well. Did it affect the paint at all?

More pics please of the finished product when you can.

PineRidge · Nov 28, 2006

JimMorrissey said:
Pine....Cool Man. That's a great experiment and looks like it works well. Did it affect the paint at all?

More pics please of the finished product when you can.

Jim the process loosens the original paint so that it can be easily removed using a power washer. I'll be painting the blade today or tomorrow and will post some pictures as it goes back together.

PineRidge · Dec 13, 2006

JimMorrissey said:
Pine....Cool Man. That's a great experiment and looks like it works well. Did it affect the paint at all?

More pics please of the finished product when you can.

A few of you asked for finished pictures. It's now December and we have yet to have a good snow, so I was pushing my luck a bit by stretching this project out as long as I did. Here's a before and a couple of after shots of the old Meyers converted over to a NH plow.

Thanks for following along with this project guys.

PS I really like the electrolysis method of cleaning the rust from the steel.

kennyd · Dec 13, 2006

Boy, that sure is BLUE!

Great ending to another great project. Well done.

PineRidge · Dec 13, 2006

Thanks Kenny, we are happy with the way it turned out too. Not bad for a roller and a paintbrush huh?

SPIKER · Dec 22, 2006

Hey guys: I FINALLY decided to give the ole electrolysis a try and see what it looks like when done. I hooked up my charger and put about a full cup of soap into a 5 gallon bucket with 2 hunks of rusty I beam, which is going to be the mounting plate MOUNTS for my trailer so I can mount my new 8K lb winch onto the trailer tung. these 2 - 12" x 6"x4"x1/4" I beams will be welded to the trailer rails and have already had bolt holes put into them to make quick on/off of the winch easy. that way the winch will stay in the barn clean/rust free. and all that

now my charger is a 2-10-50 amp unit, and has a 12hr timer too. I set it to the 50 amp just to see and talk about some bubbles

I reset it back to the 2 amp as these parts arn't too rusty, just needed some surface cleaning. will pull them tomarrow afternoon & clean prime for paint/welding onto trailer.

Makr M

PineRidge · Dec 22, 2006

SPIKER said:
Hey guys: I FINALLY decided to give the ole electrolysis a try and see what it looks like when done. I hooked up my charger and put about a full cup of soap into a 5 gallon bucket with 2 hunks of rusty I beam, which is going to be the mounting plate MOUNTS for my trailer so I can mount my new 8K lb winch onto the trailer tung. these 2 - 12" x 6"x4"x1/4" I beams will be welded to the trailer rails and have already had bolt holes put into them to make quick on/off of the winch easy. that way the winch will stay in the barn clean/rust free. and all that

now my charger is a 2-10-50 amp unit, and has a 12hr timer too. I set it to the 50 amp just to see and talk about some bubbles I reset it back to the 2 amp as these parts arn't too rusty, just needed some surface cleaning. will pull them tomarrow afternoon & clean prime for paint/welding onto trailer.

Makr M

The picture link needs some work Mark.

TwinWillows · Dec 23, 2006

Mike,
Super nice looking job in NH blue! I'm sure before spring comes you'll have a chance to use it!

SPIKER · Dec 23, 2006

MIKE:

I WISH our camera was working correctly it seems to have blown a CCD or something it has red lines through the photos and green lines and blue lines

photos are literally not worth viewing
It's an HP which we bought prior to x-mas last year and they said it has to be sent in. also said that it was something we probably dropped it or to that effect... ANYHOW looks like I'll be finding a new camera, looking at a casio and samsung since we have both mfg for other electronics which have been bullet proof & works great! Both cell phones we have are samsung and mine still works after going through washing machine dropped into the creek 2 times and almost flushed once, as well as dropped 100's of times from tractor waist down steps ect.

needless to say I DIDN'T drop the camera, but now it is out of warranty after they kept telling us to do this & that & being unable to reach through to help lines... they did say they would give us 20.00 off a NEW camera lol
ok well perhaps I'll get some finished photos

Mark M