Thread: Nice Safe Recipe For Rust Prevention

I have used camellia oil for many years for protecting metal but if left on too long it oxidizes and stains. Mineral oil works but it has problems sticking evenly to highly polished metal. I decided to try a mixture of beeswax and mineral oil and it sticks evenly and does not oxidize.
To make it all you need to is to gently warm up some mineral oil and add a few small chunks of beeswax melt and mix. The mixture comes out cloudy and settles a little but a shake or two before use is all you need. It coats the shiniest of metals and does not seperate on the surface of the metal like pure mineral oil would do and offers great safe non toxic protection. Also, it wipes off very easily. I did not meaure anything when I made it but not much beeswax at all in relation to the oil.

I don't really need to use oil where I am, but it's bound to be a useful tip for many here.

Originally Posted by ben.mid

I don't really need to use oil where I am, but it's bound to be a useful tip for many here.

Slightly further down the Thames Valley it's sometimes as damp as a rainforest!

Originally Posted by welshwizard

Slightly further down the Thames Valley it's sometimes as damp as a rainforest!

Without the heat too, no doubt!

Cofion gorau fi ffrind,
Mick

Mike, thanks for the recipe, as an alternative here are some products that deliver the goods in terms of rust prevention. Unfortunately the best of the bunch is no longer in production AFAIK. R.I.G. is the greatest but unless you're lucky enough to find some old stock in a gun shop they went under years ago.

Great tip, thanks! Should come in handy now that I'm back in humidity land.

Originally Posted by Kingfish

To make it all you need to is to gently warm up some mineral oil and add a few small chunks of beeswax melt and mix. The mixture comes out cloudy and settles a little but a shake or two before use is all you need.

Wasn't sure from that second line above, but are you saying that it can be stored for later use? If so, does it need to be in a glass container, or NOT in a glass container, or refrigerated, or...?

Inquiring minds need it all spelled out.