Surform got rusty…is there somthing i can do to get her clean?
Wd 40, goggles, and a small wire brush… might have to spray it down w brake cleaner to clean it up…in a worse case scenario -just switch out to a new blade! Wear some chemical safe gloves also…if you don’t have wd forty - motor oil will work.
A mild acid bath. Vinegar, overnight. Then scrub with bristle brush. Final bath in acetone.
How much is a new surform blade, $5?
+shipping from us to israel…
Stainless steel microplane blades cut better and don’t rust…
use it! you can shred up some old foam bones with it to get the rust off…
That works too.
i’ll try the vinegar bath and acetone clean.
i do have pool HCl if the vinegar doesnt work.
The pool acid will only need 1 or 2 hours, to clean it up. Rinse with water, then an acetone dip, which displaces the water. The added bonus is that the blade will also be ‘‘chemically sharpened.’’
Surform got rusty. Is there something I can do to get her clean?
Use it.
I had a nice surform but i’ve left it in one of the random places you find to leave stuff in when your begging and borrowing spaces off real shapers to use their bays and sanding rooms. i hope i find it again…
Thanks for the tips, I found the thread after a search, i have a surform my old man gave me its been in the shed for a while and it needs some love, so yes.
I will "use it"
An old woman told me her husband used to use molasses to remove rust. I’ve never tried it but did look it up. Here’s something I found on youtube…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5IUiYMhRM