rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you how you can remove rust and then
protect the area using this german-made Fertan system, now whenever you're
messing with chemicals I always use these gloves, they're great a few little
splatters it won't get on you, makes your job
a lot easier, now this is especially good for rust that's in hard to get to areas,
like the top here, it's got a lot of rust and corrosion let's just say the English
don't chrome plate things as well as they used to, and speaking of chrome
plating, realize that the thickness of the chrome plating isn't much, it's from
point .002 millimeters to .02 millimeters so it's really thin
stuff, and yes when done correctly the chrome plating is usually over nickel
plating, but the nickel plating hey it only has a maximum plating level of 0.1
millimeter, so it's all pretty thin stuff water can often get through little
fissures and cracks and get down to the bare metal and then the metal rusts and you
see rust on your chrome, so it's not the chrome that's rusting even though you
see rust on it, it's the underlayment that's where something like this gel works
really well, now course there's many ways to apply it but I find the best is you
pour a little bit of the gel into a clear glass container and then use a
brush because that way you're only going to contaminate the stuff you have out, if
you put the brush inside the bottle and kept going back and forth, you're going
to contaminate the bottle and ruin it this way the only thing you use up as a
stuff you pour it in the glass then you liberally apply it on a
corroded part, you can easily get in all the nooks and crannies without having to
take everything apart, now once you put it on you wait anywhere from 15
minutes to an hour for the stuff to do its thing, the more corroded it is the
longer it's going to take to get rid of that rust,
now it's especially good on things like rust around spokes on wheels, where it's
hard to get in those little crevices especially these hard to get to spoke
areas, you really don't want have to take all the spokes apart and clean them and
put them back on, you want to do it on the vehicle and as you're gonna see here,
it also works good at taking corrosion off of aluminum, I just put this stuff on
and you can see it's already starting to lift
off a bunch of the corrosion, I'm gonna do some of this transmission case too, now
of course the big advantage of gel is that it's a gel, it's nice and gooey and
it sticks, if you're using a liquid it's gonna drip all over the place, this stuff
stays in place and does its job, you just need to have the patience to wait
for the stuff to work, and like I said you can wait up to a whole hour
which is what I'm gonna do, now while we're waiting for the stuff to do its
job and get rid of the rust, I'm gonna talk about what you do after the rust is
gone, now this is a motorcycle and I'm gonna actually end up polishing the
thing and coating it with the special polish that not only polishes and makes
it shine, but it seals it with a type of wax that can last up to a whole year so
the water doesn't intrude and make it rust again, and for that I'm going to use
this quick glo, it's made in Louisiana it's really cool stuff, it polishes and
it seals and it can last quite some time, but let's say you're dealing with
something that's either bare metal or painted metal, then you use this Fertan
stuff the epoxy primer you paint that on first, you get the primer and you spray
that on first and if you want a gray primer color you
can just leave it at that, and if you want something like an engine part or
something it's gonna get oil and grease on it, this is more oil resistant and if
you're doing a part that hey on the engine or on the brakes that gets heat
or gets oil on it, you can use this multi metal coating, you spray that on and when
it dries, it leaves a really good finish on any kind of bare metal, it really
adheres well to steel, aluminum, it's really good for painting bare metal
parts once you get rid of the rust, once you spray this on you don't have to
worry about corrosion for quite some time, and as you can see it, lets the
color of the metal show through, unlike the primer that's a dark grey, this just
lets the metal show it's natural color a lot of guys use this metal coating on
their rat cars, they got an old car and it has a lot of rust and stuff and they
clean the rust seal it all with something like this, so
that you actually see the real metal underneath, but this keeps it from
rusting anymore, it seals it from corrosion, and of course if you're doing
it on the metal part you don't want it to corrode especially say if you live
near the ocean, this is really good for stopping metal corrosion, heck I know
guys down in Galveston here on the ocean,
they got beachfront property, they spray a lot of the metal part to keep the
saltwater from corroding them, and as long as you keep this stuff up, hey it
works quite well well not it's been about an hour so
we're gonna start wiping all this stuff off, see what it did, and as you can see
hey that rust is starting to come off on the blue paper towel, I've been using
these blue work towel for years because they're tough but they're soft, you can
use microfiber towels too if you want, but this takes up the dirt a lot
faster and you throw it away you don't have to worry about cleaning that when
you're done, just check out how shiny it is now
but as I said, since this is shiny chrome now I'm going to use this quick glo
because this quick glo, not only will it polish it up good, it has a wax built-in
that seals it so the water doesn't get under all the chrome and a nickel
plating and start to rust again, this will prevent it from rusting and this
can work a whole year, I only polish this thing once a year, you just get some on
the towel and start polishing it, see the wax is built in here so the wax is going
to seal it, so now not only is it rust free, but it's polished with a wax
that'll keep the rust from coming through, now let's wipe it off the top of
the casing we did as you can see the top of the casing is all shiny now, look at
the difference between that and the dirty side that we haven't done yet, what
a difference, and that's for the spokes here's the untreated spokes, you can see
the rust on it, here's the ones that we worked on look at how shiny they are, now
the valve stem has a steel nut and you can see it's taken a lot of the rust off but
there's still a little bit left, this one's going to have to be treated even
longer because it's just bare steel this isn't chrome-plated steel here, this is
bare steel and it would require a little bit more work to get it perfectly shiny
but being bare steel here of course the English screwed up, they should have
either chrome-plated it with the rest of the stuff or painted it, in this case if
you want that to be perfect you take that bolt off, sand it down, and either
paint it silver or black, or go out and buy a chrome plated nut to go on there
and since this is mechanic money I'm gonna be giving away some of this rust
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