[Fot] Removing rusty lug nuts . . .

[Duncan Charlton]

I haven’t tried this technique yet on frozen nuts/studs, but if all one wants to do is simply removing rust and you are not in a hurry, it’s hard to beat molasses.

I’m nearly done soaking a rusty engine mount assembly in a 10% solution of molasses and water.  It takes a week or so to finish bubbling but it does a great job of removing rust — and I can just dump it on the ground without killing the soil outside my workshop.  This mount is a 3’ long tube (for a small rear-engined car) that is sound but had hard-to-reach rust in many nooks and crannies — I made a trough on the floor out of Visqueen and some 4” X 4”s and filled it with the solution of tap water and agricultural molasses (inexpensive and comes in large containers).  I wire brushed it and chipped off the scale before putting it in the solution.  I pulled it a few days ago to drain the sludge that had formed inside the (almost completely sealed) tube.

Duncan Charlton
Elgin, Texas USA



> On Nov 7, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Bill Tobin <william.tobin31 at verizon.net> wrote:
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> HI All, my cousin told me about this a couple years ago and it actually does work. I've tried it a couple times.
> Of course lubing the threads or applying anit-sieze during assembly doesn't hurt either.
> Cheers, Bill
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>>> Removing rusty lug nuts . . .I have not tried this, but it really looks easy !  Bill Dentinger
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