[ARC5] restoring rusty metal tubes

[Leslie Smith]

Hello all!

I bought a box full of metal tubes recently.  12A6, 12K8, 12SK7 and so on.
Many have an unattractive amount of rust on the surface, some have a small
amount.  None belong to a class I would call 'collectable'.

Can anyone advise what I can do to preserve these?  My thoughts are along
the lines of clean the metal case with a buffing wheel; after that re-paint
with gloss spray.  All observations welcome.  I would like to save a box of
common, not too flash, but probably quite functional metal octal tubes.

73s from Australia.

Leslie
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