[TheForge] Rust-proofing mild steel - accidental discovery

[Mark A. Pesetsky]

Thanks Paul!!!

I was in Jamaica back in 1994...Some nice remote locations there.

Take Care
Mark
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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] on behalf of Paul Tomlinson [paul at fongkong.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:48 PM
To: TheForge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Rust-proofing mild steel - accidental discovery

Hi Guys/Gals,

Greetings from sunny^b^b^b^b^brainy Jamaica! I have been lurking on
and learning from this list for a long time, from even before I went
to Campbell in 2001 to do a week long introductory BS course with Dan Tull.

I really wonder if this will work for anybody else, but it is working
on everything I have used it on, and in the rainy season it is so
humid that everything gets mouldy or rusts like blazes!

Anyway after our last big hurricane my favourite forged sculpture was
really rusty and I had an olive oil and garlic salad-spray close at
hand ...! It has not rusted since, its been years, and I handle it
regularly to check if its started to rust yet!

I now use garlic laced olive oil for anything I don't want to rust -
and none of them do.

Having  never tried this on clean metal I do not know if it will keep
all rust off, but, a surface with a fine coating of rust ends up with
a slightly brown patina which I rather like.

I hope somebody finds this useful,

Paul

PS - I make garlic olive oil by slicing garlic into a bottle of oil.
By the way DO NOT CAP THE BOTTLE TIGHTLY AS THERE IS A REACTION THAT
RELEASES LOTS OF GAS OVER A WEEK OR TWO!

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