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Re: removing rust from an engine

To: Douglas Shook <shook@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: removing rust from an engine
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:10:46 -0500 (EST)
Use an angle grinder with a wire brush, the knotted type brush. It will
make sparks fly whe you use it.
...Art

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Douglas Shook wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a TR6 engine that I just degreased, and under all that dirt and
> grease is a surprising amount of rust (rust on an English block?!! --
> I am almost pleased, actually :)
> 
> I do have a pressure feed sandblaster that I normally use for rust
> removal projects, but am loathe to use a sandblaster on anything  even
> close to an engine (I just know that the sand will make it into the
> intake, oil, etc., let alone blast something that should not be hit with
> a sandblast stream).
> 
> Anyway, I would appreciate any non-sandblaster suggestions for removing
> rust from the engine prior to painting.  As always, thanks in advance.
> 
> doug
> 
> 


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