"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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Chris Green wrote:

wrote:
Hi All

I am restoring a bench where all the metal fixings had rusted. Some
joints
have large barrel nuts and bolts and others bolts and inset nuts.

I was thinking of putting something on them before refitting to try and
protect them. I had a few thoughts...
- use something like vasaline but guess the oil would ingress into the
wood.
- paint them before they go in.
- given they are all M8 the rust is probably superficial anyway so only
need to deal with the thread to tighten if necessary at some other
point.


Anyone have any ideas on how to prolong the life of this?

Get some stainless steel nuts and bolts! :-)

They are surprisingly cheap now if you shop around (e.g. suppliers on
eBay)

I've got a cheap "stainless steel" Ebay gate stay that has quite a lot
of surface rust after a year outside. It actually looked like SS when
new. No metallurgical tests performed, maybe it is some kind of SS?

Some SSs do rust a bit. Depends on the mix.