[TheForge] A small score - railroad spikes. Dave

Tue Apr 15 10:09:00 2003

Dave, if you want to save some money and wear and tear on your grinder not
to mention your time........use the electrolitic rust removal method that
was posted on here a couple years back. If you have a battery charger, it
works extremely well and removes only the rust and in theory will actually
put some metal back in place of the rust. We have an old rail line in our
neck of the woods too and I brought some of these spikes home and cleaned
them up using this method. Some of the spikes I brought home had more scaled
rust on them than metal left but they will produce something unique further
on down the road. If you don't have a copy of this method let me know and I
can email it to you off list unless others would like it too then I can just
post it to the list.

Ian.....

> I got perhaps 25 of them, all straight, with unrusted heads (aside from
> normal exposure).  The condition of the 'body' will be in question though
> until I can get to the grinder and clean them up.  Banging them on the
> rail disloged a lot of decay, but there seemed to be good material
> underneath.  I'll let folks know how it works out.
>
> There are perhaps 3-400 of these spikes easily accessible along a 2 mile
> stretch of abandoned line.  This is way out in the sticks, I think if
> folks are interested in them, I could get a couple handfuls easily.
>
> -dbs
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