Easily De-Rust Old Garden Tools
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2017
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on guys? Welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about how to remove rust from tools |
| 0:06.1 | and this is one of the easiest ways that I have ever found. So not a question today, just an idea that I'd like to share with you. |
| 0:14.2 | And the reason I'm sharing it to you is because I did something kind of stupid. |
| 0:19.0 | And I think it happens to all of us. |
| 0:20.6 | I was out in the garden, I was pruning, clipping, thinning, planting, etc. and I had my Falco Number Two |
| 0:26.1 | pruners out there and I left them out there overnight and so the dew formed on them and they were |
| 0:31.5 | in a position where I just couldn't see them and so I forgot about them for a few days and then they rusted out. They were pretty bad and I was kind of bummed because of Falco number two is something that's going to last you more or less your whole life if you're careful with it. |
| 0:46.0 | And it's about $60, $65, so it's expensive and I didn't want that money to go to waste. |
| 0:52.1 | So here's what happened. I figured out that number one, |
| 0:56.3 | vinegar was a fantastic way to remove rust. And the reason why that happens is |
| 1:02.0 | something I'm going to get into after I tell you how this whole method works. |
| 1:05.0 | Second, I was contacted by some folks from W.D. 40 and they sent me some cool stuff. |
| 1:10.0 | They sent me their 3 in 1 multi-purpose oil, which is not only a |
| 1:15.4 | de-ruster but a lubricant and it'll give any sort of garden tool a coding in |
| 1:20.5 | which it makes it a lot harder to rust in the future. |
| 1:23.0 | And then they also sent me some lava soap, |
| 1:25.0 | which if you guys don't remember is one of those porous pumice style soaps |
| 1:29.0 | that helps you scrub off a bunch of grust and grime from your hands and so I went to work so what I did is I took |
| 1:35.8 | the Felco Number Two's I took a mation jar and I poured white distilled vinegar in that |
| 1:40.6 | and let it soak for 24 hours. |
| 1:43.0 | What's happening there is you are basically putting the steel and rust in an |
| 1:50.0 | acidic solution and so the acidic acid that's in vinegar will react with the rust to create something |
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