On Aug 1, 11:44*am, Wes wrote:
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.

Another vote for evaporust. *We have saved a small fortune salvaging flash rusted parts.

Wes
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"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." *Dick Anthony Heller

I had a similar quantity of 5c collets. I packed them tightly into a 5-
gallon bucket, poured just enough Evaporust over them to cover (about
2 gallons, added a few more small tooling items and left them for a
week.
Came out looking near-new.