"Bill Noble" wrote in message
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On 7/30/2011 10:44 PM, Ignoramus11951 wrote:
I need to clean 60 lbs of rusted 5C collets. They are not badly
rusted, but they are rusted. At first I thought to hire a kid to do
it, but now I think that it would not help much with their insides,
anyway.

My current plan is to just dump them into a bucket of diluted muriatic
acid,then quickly washing in soda solution, then in hot water, then
letting them dry under the hot Illinois sun.

I wonder what you think about this approach.

i

I have successfully used evaporust for exactly this purpose

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www.wbnoble.com

Yep pretty good stuff, worked real well cleaning up some
scales that had a light surface rust. Was around $12.00 a
gallon at harbor frieght. Just make shure there is no oil
on the collets.

Best Regards
Tom.