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Question about rust
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Now to the rust question, the light rust that I found on my table saw wasn't
too big a deal. I just sprayed the surface liberally with WD-40 and let it
sit for maybe 10 minutes, then used a green scotch brite pad and my ROS to
buff it off. Then I sprayed it with some Topcote and a good layer of paste
wax.
Last week I had to do the same thing to my jointer (the 6" Delta
professional). The only thing different was the amount and severity of the
rust. The jointer had some pretty thick rust and it was on just about every
cast iron surface on the tool. It took me a LOT of effort to remove it,
even though the table saw and jointer had sat idle about the same amount of
time.
I guess I must be extremely lucky - I'm doing something right. I've got
a small shop in an unheated outbuilding and I live where the humidity is
low in summer and high in winter. So the tools sit unused for a lot of
the winter in a cold and damp shop.
The only time I've seen rust on either the jointer or the tablesaw was
right after I bought them. And, to be truthful, the time I set a bunch
of green wood on the tablesaw for 24 hours or more :-).
When I first saw the rust shortly after purchase, I started waxing the
tops with Johnsons Floor Wax. I do it two or three times a year. It
works, and I suspect any similar wax would also work.
If you use your cast iron tools every day, you might have to wax more
often. I'm not sure about that, as I suspect the wax gets down into the
pores of the cast iron and resists rubbing off. So that's just a guess.
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Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
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