hey adam savage here in my cave with a tool tip that is a well it's a tool but it's a material
tool tip um i've been working with steel for most of the time i have been a maker i have been a
welder since 1990 and when you work with steel you have to deal with rust rust is just a thing that
happens it happens in major ways it happens in minor ways and getting rid of rust has always been
a thing that i have done in various ways either wd-40 or or steel wool
and i've just discovered this new product and it came about well here's what i'm
here's what this whole tip is about is about this stuff evapo rust super safe rust remover
i discovered this stuff while obsessing and going down the rabbit hole of watching
youtube tool restoration videos and this is like the bread and butter of those videos so you're
always seeing them soak a bunch of rusty parts in this stuff overnight and then pulling them out and
they look fantastic i bought a gallon of this and it worked gangbusters i actually it's hard
for me to sing the praises of this enough it's not like it's a miracle fluid but it is reusable
so i've got it in a bin and i've regularly put parts in that bin over the last couple of months
and they keep coming out the next morning like looking fantastic so i thought i would do a demo
for you of two different use cases one kind of normal one extreme to see what i'm talking about
there are plenty of rust removers on the market there are not a lot
that are completely environmentally friendly and also safe to be in contact with your skin
my parts washer i don't mind touching the parts washer fluid but it definitely dries out your
skin and it says on the bottle you know don't use don't have constant contact this does not it is
non-toxic biodegradable safe on the skin and eyes i'm not testing that and reusable i dig this stuff
so uh yeah the reusable is a really amazing thing here what i've got are two pieces that i am going
to soak overnight in the uh evapo rust one is the steel barrel of norm's tomatsuki blaster the blade
runner blaster this has been sitting out and as you can see it's got a little rust pattern on it
now like i said in the past i might have done this with steel wool and wd40 but what if you've got a
finish that you want to maintain what if you don't want a steel wool finish on your steel
that's where this comes in it is literally like a touchless rust remover which i really dig and then
i went upstairs and found this monstrosity i thought let's just see what it can do
so we're going to soak both of these uh up uh uh completely immersed in the evaporator rust
overnight and tomorrow morning or for you 30 seconds from now we're going to see how we did
there we go now there'll be a time lapse
of me watching this all night long and then i'll open it up
all right it's part two time uh we are examining the wonderful properties of this evapo rust my new
favorite rust remover when last i left you i had poured some over uh uh norms to manuzuki blaster
barrel and also a crazy crazy rusty spring of mine and we're about to pull them out of the evapo rust
and see how they did full disclosure the results you're going to see happen in my experience within
24 hours this has been soaking for three days though um so if you end up noticing that it's
that my results are a little better than what you get after one night uh it may be that you want
to soak it further i have not a b tested 24 hours versus 72 hours so your mileage may vary but let's
crack them and see how we did i've got a weird little hair right there somewhere okay um yeah put
the ah there it is there is norm's blaster barrel and here is my spring there we go uh yeah so uh
this stuff is totally safe for skin contact um i'm pulling this out without any wiping i believe you
can see that it seems relatively smooth of any rust but let's just hit it with a cloth
oh it's been it's been sitting on its base i probably should have pulled it after 24 hours
sorry norm um but here we go yeah i i know that's a little bit unfortunate but this is
it's literally the bottom of the barrel is it the bottom of the barrel wait wait wait yeah
that's the bottom of the barrel yeah i had it sitting on its left side uh at any rate the rust
she is gone yeah i i love this stuff and i can pour this stuff right back in that bottle and
use it again um here is the spring let's this was the tougher use case let's see how we did
this was caked in rust all right let's wipe this off
oh yeah look at that it's just all this rust is pouring off of it actually hold
on
yeah so this is the final step for rust that is this intense the uh the liquid has
soaked in but there's no scrubbing action from the liquid um yeah
that's
i i you know it's not perfect but it's fantastic i look i love this thing for restoring old tools
this stuff is totally fantastic i am super happy with it and i love that it's both
reusable and that it doesn't damage my delicate delicate hands thank you guys for joining me for
this tool tip um by all means share pictures of the things you clean of rust in the comments i
am as obsessed as you are with watching people restore old crap on youtube
it is just an endlessly delightful genre and i'm glad to contribute to it if that's in fact
what this tool tip does i will see you guys next time stay safe thank you guys so much for watching
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