Wander to your local horse supply place and buy a 50 pound bag of
Molasses Granules. Find or make a tank large enough to hold the tools
with some extra room. (dollar stores sell these tanks as "storage
containers") Put the tank outside under cover (plastic cover that was
included is OK, outside so that your house doesn't smell when your done)
Put tools in container, now mix the Molasses granules with water with
about a 1:4 ratio (1 cup M to 4 cups W / 1 gallon M to 4 gallons W)
stronger is OK but you don't want it to thick or pasty. Let tools set
in slurry for a day. Open container and stir entire mix so that tools
move around and cover back up. Repeat for 5 days. Pull a few tools every
day and see how they are cooking. The rust will dissolve off and they
will have an ugly black film that washes off. Once clean use a light
machine oil to give the tools a LIGHT film coat. Or for plain steel
tools use some bluing solution and blue them.

DO NOT do this inside. The smell of the molasses will make you get a
serious case of munchies and it lingers for weeks......

--
Steve Williams

"Will" wrote in message
.. .
I have a box of old tools... wrenches, screw drivers, sockets, socket
wrench
handels, etc.

It is all quite rusty.

What is the best way to clean these tools up and get all the rust off?

thanks for any help - Will






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