[TheForge] Just Rust

[Craig Schaefer]

If you can seal out oxygen - hard to do - it won't continue to rust. 
Lacquer is a permeable membrane and will allow moisture and oxygen to pass. 
Urethanes or clear powder coating can seal in and stop rust, but if they 
crack over time, you will have trouble again.

CraigS
Gresham, OR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky7Steel" <lucky7steel at gmail.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hand cream and Rust


> Hi there,
>
> I've found that Shea Butter works really well for a hand cream. I've taken
> to only buying stuff at the health food stores for my hands because you 
> can
> get pure minimal ingredient type things. The smell of bag balm is enough 
> to
> ..well...i can't stand it. Maybe cows can't smell that well or just can't
> say. ;-)
>
> I've been rusting some pieces in my yard with salt water (can't figure out
> the acid stuff without fearing for my dog's life!). I've seen people spray
> lacquer over to seal them. Doesn't this just seal in the rust? would make
> sense to me that the piece would just continue to rust underneath the
> lacquer no?
>
> any thoughts?
>
> ~KarenC~
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