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Keeping rust off tools
9fingers:
Marvellous what you can learn on this forum!! :)
Bob
awemawson:
--- Quote from: 9fingers on May 08, 2014, 07:36:22 AM ---Marvellous what you can learn on this forum!! :)
Bob
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You must be surrounded by the wooly ones where you are in Romsey Bob surely, must be second nature to you :lol:
greenie:
--- Quote from: awemawson on May 08, 2014, 07:27:07 AM ---Fly Strike is the enemy at the moment. Eggs laid in the wool develop into maggots, maggots initially survive on the lanolin then head south into the flesh :bugeye: Come quite early this year, I suspect due to the mild winter.
Have to spray them all with Crovect at an enormous cost. Had three so far affected who need the Crovect massaging into the affected areas but got to them before they'd entered the flesh - quite satisfying seeing the maggots curl up their toes as you do it, but the sheep looses the wool in the affected area and looks rather bedraggled.
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What about if you get to the maggots too late and they are into eating the flesh, what a mess you get on the hand shears then, eh.
Then home for lunch and no matter how hard you scrub your hands, you just can't get rid of that "god awful stench" of maggot infested flesh. :Doh:
Been there and done that and don't want to do it ever again.
chipenter:
Last week I opened my steel cabinet where I keep my power tools and steel stock , and found condensation drops hanging from the ceiling and my bms rusty spent over a day to clean the rust off and oil everything , found Damp Trap in poundland http://www.poundland.co.uk/scented-damp-trap , it's to soon to tell iff it's doing any good has anyone else tried them before me ?
AR1911:
Fortunately I have not found maggots amongst my lanolin-slathered machine tools. What I did find yesterday was a nice Buck chuck that had missed out on the lanolin treatment - now rusty.
With all the rain and temp changes we have had lately, I have been checking everything as soon as I open the shop door, which every 2 or 3 days. It's been 2 years since I started using lanolin, and so far nothing has rusted except those items that I did not treat.
I wish I had been able to treat my poor race car, stuck in the trailer with several gallons of water. I hate to even drop the door :(
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