- May 16, 2023
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Some weeks ago I dug a cast iron stove door from an 1800's homestead cellar hole (if you're curious, my digging is documented here). It was horribly rusted, as you might imagine, but still seemed to be in decent shape overall, and looked like it might be cool if I could clean it up. Here's what it looked like then (click it for a larger view).
Thanks to suggestions on these forums, I learned about Evap-o-Rust, and bought a big five gallon bucket of it to try to clean this thing up. The bucket wasn't quite deep enough to fully submerge the door, so I had to rotate it every couple of days to get both ends. And every couple of days I'd hit it with a wire brush to scrape off the loose bits before putting it back in to soak some more.
Total soak time was a little over a week. But it was worth the wait. The Evap-o-Rust worked amazingly well. It even cleaned out the mounting holes for the hinges! I coated it with linseed oil (if there's a better option, please let me know), and I'm going to use it for some kind of project, I just don't know what yet. Here's the cruddy before vs the amazing after.
Thanks to suggestions on these forums, I learned about Evap-o-Rust, and bought a big five gallon bucket of it to try to clean this thing up. The bucket wasn't quite deep enough to fully submerge the door, so I had to rotate it every couple of days to get both ends. And every couple of days I'd hit it with a wire brush to scrape off the loose bits before putting it back in to soak some more.
Total soak time was a little over a week. But it was worth the wait. The Evap-o-Rust worked amazingly well. It even cleaned out the mounting holes for the hinges! I coated it with linseed oil (if there's a better option, please let me know), and I'm going to use it for some kind of project, I just don't know what yet. Here's the cruddy before vs the amazing after.
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