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According to Wikipedia, naval jelly is simply phosphoric acid in a jellied form so it's just "Rust Buster" under another name. Phosphoric acid converts reddish-brown iron oxide to black ferric phosphate. You may also be interested to know that phosphoric acid is also a common ingredient in soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi which therefore also will remove rust.

Great I have a Chev soaked in Pepsi.. PepsimaxMonty

Hey Grant,

Diet or Maxi, after all who wants a fat car.

By the way, have your Transoil 250 or 600w as our friends in the USA would say.

Cheers

Ray

Arend,

Git outta town fella. Wow, I did not realize the ingredients in petro jelly...but I sure knew it worked. Pink is good, especially in Pepto Bismol! Not to be confused Ray!

I continue to be amazed by the information shared on this site. I had no idea when I first logged on what was between these margins. I am awed.

Jerry

I used Coke to clean the top of corroded truck batteries years ago. It really foams and works on the corrosion, I always thought it was the soda in the Coke that was doing the work.

I am back to drinking H20,, coffee, and sweet iced tea!

Grant,

What a thought I just had, why don't you just chrome everything? That way you won't have to worry about paint color or matching anything. Admittedly, it probably isn't exactly what your pa had in mind but think about the possibilities. Ray would be jealous out of his mind. You wouldn't have to worry about being seen either. Course you'd be doing lots and lots of polishing but I'm sure the family would love to volunteer! You could buy Muther's polish by the gallon. Or, maybe not!

Cheers,
Jerry

Gidday Jerry you ole trickster you!!

Chrome! Polish!, just what are you thinking my friend, I'll leave all of that polishing nonsence up to you folks with the flash coloured paint jobs and fancy bits and peices hanging off everywhere........

Speaking of polish, a couple of years ago a found a 'ubeaut' polish for chrome, and even better for alloy radiator surrounds.
Many of my mates now also swear by it. The brand is REFLECTION and it's a FERRO product. Google 'reflection car polish' and it will tell you all about it. I have also used it on my enamel signs and it works magic on them. I bought the 3kg tin.
For you US bods its possibly not available in the US, but worth looking for.
Chris

Dont worry Jerry,

I will slip in a few chrome bits here and there tomorrow, Grant will never notice. Will just be our secret. Make sure you dont tell Sadie. She's a bugger when she gets on the phone.

Cheers

Ray

Hi,

Let the before and after pictures tell the story.

Hi,
I have been very impressed with the results shown of rustbuster.It seems to take a lot of the hard work out of removing rust.
I went to Bunnings today and purchased a 4 litre bottle.I noticed the smaller packs had a spray nozzle.I prefer to use a brush.

On the label it said to use an oil base undercoat.
What type of undercoat have you been using Ray and Grant?

I normally sandblast dry or wet and then follow with a phosphoric acid coat such as metaphos and then with a etch primer but the rustbuster recommends the complete oposite.No sandblasting,must have a fair amount of rust for the process to work,no zinc based undercoats etc.

Cheers
Rusted

Cheers Rusted,

Depending on the surface and where it is, I either use an acrylic primer or etch primer, followed by acrylic top coats.

You are correct that rustbuster requires rust to activate the process, and I find that parts stored in the workshop once treated will retain the gun metal blue coating for up to 2 years.

Grant has had good results from applying Rustbuster by brush, leaving it work and then hitting with a wire brush, but I will let him tell you his own story in more detail.

My best results lately have come from soaking, with full conversion of heavy 82 year rust in 24 hours.

Even though you can paint over the top, I prefer to wipe down with prep wash prior to painting.

Let us know how you get on.

Cheers

Ray

Gidday Rusted,

Yes it's a very good product, and as Ray mentioned I just brushed it on the frame, saved what I could but and let the run off drip down on the concrete floor then wiped that all up after with some degreaser.

I probably went over the complete chassis about 3 times in total (I used the full 4 litres can) and then hit it each time with the wire brush wheel in the angle grinder.

The last time I put some in the degreaser air gun (wearing head gear and masks) and sprayed it everywhere I could reach but not on the motor and this was done in a large open warehouse/factory so overspray was not an issue , then I left it for about 1 week, then I used only a hand help wire brush and went over it all again, inside and out, wiped it completely down with prepwash, then painted it straight away..

It was way to easy to do and I got a super result, the paint has stuck very well as I have been trying to scratch it up a little just to see how well it took to the chassis and it won't come off at all, I sourced the paint from the local panel shop who highly recommended it, etched primer and black matt acrylic paint.

Good luck

Grant, is Monty still in the shed?

I'll be coming past at about 9.30 tomorrow and might call in and say G'day if you're there.

Gidday Skid,

Yep, it's still in our signshop and by all means call past and pop ya head in the door.

Hopefully I will be towing it home tomorrow afternoon, if weather permitting...