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How to prevent rust in measurement equipment?
awemawson:
We are in a low lying shallow valley - in fact a flood plain. Regularly when I get up in the morning at certain times of the year, there is a thick layer of mist hovering above the ground so dense you can't see the sheep.
And yet my machines and measuring equipment in the main workshop don't rust. Why ?
... I heat the workshop - daytime 18 deg C and 8 deg C over night. Works for me :ddb:
PekkaNF:
Now this is getting interesting after people tell what they use and why.
I enjoyed answers.
My primary motivation here is that Swimbo let me have one bedroom for measurement and other clean stuff.
Garage is somewhat warm too.
Problem is that outdoor is not heated and here it is half half a time very humid and cold or freezing. When I lug stuff between garage and house stuff tends to cool and moisture condensates. Small parts can be put on zip bags and/or sealed plastic box. This does not really work on big stuff.
Pekka
Lew_Merrick_PE:
Pekka -- My "trick" with steel parts when they either need to be stored or shipped is to (A) wax them, (B) give them a light coat of WD-40 (where the "WD" stands for "Water Displacing"), and (C) wrap them in "cling wrap" (food wrap -- common here in the U.S. under the "Saran" brand name) and then wrap that in either newspapers or rags (depending on the ultimate "task").
ieezitin:
camphor is in Vicks vapor rub so is Vaseline i believe.. interesting,,,,
Ed ke6bnl:
here is one that has proven itself for the last year, although I live in a very dry environment of So. california, long story short, I used HCl in the garage and a few days later my entire buggy tube frame went from shiny steel to a surface rust frame. I sanded it down and used some evaporusts rust-block and to my amazement there is no rust for over a year.
https://www.amazon.com/Evapo-Rust-RB015-Rust-Inhibitor-oz/dp/B0037ZAJ88
I have nothing to do with the company, I just was trying all forms of rust removal from electroylisis to vinager then tried some evaporust on some garage sale milling bits find and I put them in an old crock pot from my wife. heated it with the parts covered with evaporust and in less then a half hour they were derusted, they were not terrible just surface rust. This seems to be working better then the fluid film I am also using. I am sold on this product.
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