Thread: Rust Removal Evaporust

Originally Posted by Euclid440

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Walt got me thinking, I had bought this razor for $2 bucks, for the scales and dug it out of my “Project” box to unpin and test the Evaporust. It appears it was re-pined at some time with what appears to be a steel nail. As luck would have it, the pivot pin was bent in a C and broke the scale, it must have had a hair line crack as it was well supported and I was very lightly tapping. Anyway, I have some nice spacer material.

Are those celluloid scales? If so I would toss them away as far and fast as you can. They probably caused the rust in the first place.

Thats one nice old wilton

has anyone tried CLR? no idea how it would affect the metals.

Sorry for gravedigging an old thread, but do NOT use white vinegar on a razor with rust/patina, at least if you are prone to walk away from something for more than a few minutes. Vinegar is acetic acid, and removes steel as well as the iron oxide (rust). I left one in vinegar overnight, and it looked like lace in the morning (lots of little holes through the steel). Evapo-rust works via chelation, like the molasses solutions so, and will only bond with iron oxide, leaving a rust free, clean metal surface. The molasses solutions are also used on rusty thin metal like old motorcycle tanks to remove rust without thinning the already thin sheetmetal.

Great old thread. Still relevant for us new guys just starting to investigate restoration options, be they invasive, or as in evaporust, slower, but less invasive from a buffing and grinding perspective.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Great old thread. Still relevant for us new guys just starting to investigate restoration options, be they invasive, or as in evaporust, slower, but less invasive from a buffing and grinding perspective.
Thanks.

Mike, I agree!