floating on cereal crops?

[wd9]

Oh yeah forgot to post this for you Lee. $1200 and it is in Canada too!

http://www.canadianrodder.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=cars60s;action=display;num=11753108 39

[melvill]

Thanks wd9. I've got a a fourdoor, six cylinder, with a good, unrusted frame and very good front fenders. It's rear quarter panels that are hard to find.

If you're looking at things like that forum, what kind of car is your disease? And, believe me, it can become a disease.

Thanks again.

[wd9]

54 Chevy Truck and 55 Chev 2 dr car. Stricken without a cure. BTW, have you ever done electrolysis to remove rust?

Take about a tablespoon of Arm and Hammer washing soda per gallon of water and mix thoroughly in a plastic bucket. Connect a 12 volt battery charger to it. This is important, connect the black (neg) to the piece you want cleaned. Drop in a hunk of steel in the water and connect the red or positive to that piece. In anywhere from 1 to 24 hours depending on rust accumulation, it will mostly come off and what doesn't a simple brushing will get the rest. You can do any size of piece, just get a bigger bucket. I have done a frame before even. From all the tricks I have learned over the years restoring stuff, this one is the best and possibly least known. Works good on very delicate parts and the ionic exchange doesn't etch.

If you can't find washing soda (sodium carbonate) take baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and put on a cookie sheet and bake at 325 for 1 hour. NaHCO3 gives up a water molecule and CO2 and voila you have carbonate.

You can use lye (the powdered soap making stuff) also although use gloves and protect your eyes.

Also either oil, wax, or paint the part right away as it rusts again because of the Fe03 and magnetite (black stuff)left fron the electrolysis.

Produces hydrogen and oxygen so use in a ventilated area - kaboom!

Tip du jour.

[melvill]

Nope, wd9, never heard of that trick. I'll have to try it when I get to that point. Right now my car's quarters are so rusty that your trick would remove them entirely! Found a place in the States with NOS quarters. Price delivered to Montana - US$3300. Ouch!

[melvill]

Hey, wd9, just reread your post about rest removal in a pail. Noticed you've done a frame with this method. What I want to know is "how'd you get the frame in the pail?" LOL

[melvill]

Got my drivers license in one of these cars in May '66. Also went on my first date in one. Piles of room in both the front and back seat! LOL.

[wd9]

Ring of 2X6 lined with plastic rap. OK, so a square pail and a big one. For electrodes used a few lengths of rebar and welded them to make a ring around the frame and inside the openings. For a project this size, a DC welder on low works best.

[sundance]

If you do find a 66 Meteor be careful not to drive on any lawns, I understand some of your friends ?? could leave ruts in your yard.

[melvill]

Oh, boy, ruts on my front lawn is certainly going back a looooooooooooooooong way! The interesting things about that story is how few people know about it. Makes me ask, "Who's Sundance?"

So, Sundance, should we tell that story or just savour it ourselves?

[sundance]

I do not think we should divulge any more information on the subject. I had a front row view of the incident.