muriatic acid will clean the rust so the metal looks like
new

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"Boots" wrote in
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it is surface rust. Someone told me the acid they use
to
clean brick will clean it. (can't think of the acid?)

muriatic acid


I knew the name. I think it's a very bad idea, however.

Patriarch,
who has scrubbed a few bricks and blocks in his youth.