okay this is one of my favorite tools i have a bunch of tools like this where they got all rusty
um over time
and i'm gonna use this um white vinegar and soak it for a day
in this cup and it's supposed to be able to remove the rust off the tool
and um you just brush it afterwards and supposedly clean it let's see what happens
i'm gonna go up to the rubber point and then stop there you go so we'll just let that sit for
a little while maybe a day and then we'll come back and look at the results
all right i also have this really rusty saw this is my original saw i was probably like
eight years old when i got it and it's very rusty
i use it still because it's small they don't you know they don't make things like this anymore
and i also have a spatula that has some rust on it so i'm gonna pour put both of those in the same
cup i figured why not and we'll see what happens over time about a day all right it's been about
eight hours ten hours let's see what this thing looks like if you can see it
definitely took some of it off
i'm also going to try to
that's one item let's see how about this this guy
it has crud on it like um i don't know if you could see this
there's definitely some crud on there
it's like black
it seems to you just could just touch it and the material comes off
you can see that
it's not that easy to pick up on the camera but the rust is coming off very easily
it's leaving almost like a black metal under it
um and the toothbrush is basically just taking the flakes off very easily
except for that let's see how about the pliers
pliers
yeah the the orange rust is actually coming off pretty well on the pliers you can tell
and i got one of these old two brushes with the motors just just because it's easier
and the rust appears to be coming off pretty well
we got this thing
and that crutch coming off like crazy
on this guy spatula
what we're going to end up doing is we'll we'll rinse it with some water
and see what the final result is
and this this this guy is going to be the saw i only did like a tip so it'll be interesting to see
what happens with this one
where the part that i didn't touch yet looks like so we'll put it in we'll
wipe it in some water and see what happens next
okay i got my water here ready to go in my bucket let's put this guy in first he's easiest
as soon as i put it in there the black stuff started leaving this tool
well definitely got rid of all the rust there's some other material on there like um
plaster or some kind that isn't coming off that would probably have to be cleaned more
let's use this saw this is the one that i was wondering about the most
oh boy you can see a big difference in this saw the part that i actually put into the material
you could actually see the line
i don't know if you could see that it's very hard to record certain angles get it i guess
see if we go back farther
i don't know if you can see that but there's definitely
uh difference between the part that was dipped in the vinegar and the part that was not
yeah dip it in again
there you go again see um you can see the gray kind of color on top and it's rusty still on the
bottom i'm going to clean this totally it's just that i wanted to have something that
showed the comparison between not using the vinegar and using it so we'll clean that up
now one thing you usually have is a lot of pliers that have rust they're easy to rust
this one looks like it cleaned up okay
it probably could use a buffing too with like a brillo pad or some kind but
it's almost all gray now i don't see any rust
i guess i would have to move this handle a little to get to some of it that's still loose
there's still a little bit there but not much
much better though and then these these were really rusty i remember leaving these out
it seems that the material turned back to black
which i know these were probably originally more black than anything um these are really old
even the spring the rust removed so just got to wipe it off
i think i think vinegar does do the job you can remove rust with vinegar
all the items look much better now i'll probably clean up that that saw blade and dry these off
a little bit more and then that should be it
so give vinegar a try when you need to remove rust off your um tools okay and then finally
you have your your items that you just cleaned and got rid of most of the rust
what you should do is spray it with some kind of like wd-40 material or
in my case i have this bpl stuff which is just as good i guess um and that gives it
a little coating so it doesn't rust as quickly again and just give it a little bit of spray
and towel dry if it's too wet but that will keep it from getting as rusty
if it's just um laid out and if you're working in the
rain or whatever or if you leave it out it'll have some kind of coating now to protect it
so all the items came out really well i'm gonna work on the blade a little bit more because
i didn't do the other side but this is a legitimate way to clean your
tools they came out really well and that black color um basically faded to silver
after a while so that don't worry about the black color you.
How to remove rust off tools the easy way