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9 January 2014 at 4:42 pm #25582
i’ve just been in the shed (first time for a week or so ) and the first thing i spotted when i picked up my # 4 off the bench was a rust spot on the heal so everything got a going over with the ever faithful “rag in a can ” anyone got any better suggestions for keeping the dreaded rust away .
Joe, is linseed oil spontaneously combustible like the boiled type or is it different?
Eddy, you could try a “Silica Gel Dehumidifier” in your toolbox from Lee Valley, you can reuse them by putting them in the oven. I have never tried them as my shop is currently in a conditioned basement but I have contemplation this idea when I thought I might be moved to the garage. See link:
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=53828&cat=1,43326The dehumidifier will help but you should close your tool box for it to be affective. another thing to think about is the acidity in the oils on your hands. If you have high acidity levels in your system every where you touch bare steal you will get rust if not wiped off and oiled regardless of humidity levels. I worked in the machine shop several years ago and one of the guys I worked with had a continual problem with rust for this reason. If I loaned him a tool, specially a micrometer, I’d disassemble the thing and sprayed it with oil immediately. In my opinion oiling is the best prevention.
Ha, I just looked and it seems both boiled and raw are spontaneously combustable. I never new this. At the forge they always told us to do this,but we never used much, and the tools would be wrapped in it not screwed up. But still maybe not such a good idea in a wood workshop.
9 January 2014 at 8:53 pm #25616Eddy my workshop is a concreate garage with an up and over door with no insulation I do not tend to have much trouble with rust but I do keep all of my tools in a tool box, I think ensuring that all tools are put away at end of play each day helps. My tool box is so tightly packed I don’t think there is room in there for moisture.
9 January 2014 at 9:16 pm #25622I think thats my problem David i do tend to leave some tools on the bench
I keep a cloth in a tin and add a few drops of jojoba oil to it each time I put my tools away. Then I wipe the tools down quickly with it. My workshop is not humidity-controlled and I have never add a spot of rust on any tool. I should add that the humidity in the summer here can be extreme.
I noticed that Lie Nielsen no longer sell camellia oil incidentally which is also used by many people, but they still sell jojoba.
You can get jojoba oil very easily from health shops, it is very cheap and non-combustible. It also helps planes glide better.
The same 30 ml bottle has lasted me a couple of years now. Make sure you get an essential oil and not a diluted or version with additives. Mine is produced by Divine Essence.
10 January 2014 at 6:16 am #25668I use Camelia oil on my tools to prevent rust, but as others have mentioned, I find that cleaning and putting my tools away each night makes the biggest difference. Humidity is not such an issue for me at the moment (as we’re staring down the barrel of 44C/111F tomorrow) but I find it much harder to keep tools rust free in winter if they are dirty and/or left on the bench.
I would recommend that you try a good quality metal polish. I recently stripped the lacquer off my Narex chisels. I put 2 generous coats of metal polish on them immediately after, except for 2 of them which I got back to a couple days later. The ones I didn’t polish started to surface rust quite noticeably, while the rest remained nice and spotless. It’s been a few weeks now and I’ve been using the 1″ chisel a lot and it’s still rust free. I use Simichrome metal polish, which works very well on all metals I’ve used it on so far.
10 January 2014 at 10:59 am #25676I used to work a lot with alloy and bare metal making motorcycle parts. The way I stopped them corroding or rusting was (as Juan suggested) to give them a buff up with a metal polish. I used Autosol Chrome and Metal polish mostly and if applied with a microfibre cloth then it won’t mark your tools.
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