[TheForge] Rust-proofing mild steel - accidental discovery

[peter fels]

I like it Paul!
It'd be interesting to run a side by side test with and without garlic.
I take it that there is a commercial olive oil and garlic spray in supermarkets?
Just put it on the town list.
It's traditional to preserve cloves of garlic in olive oil...did it for years,
till i read a report that they'd detected salmonella in some jars.
Bet it keeps those pesky vampires off one's forgings too.

I've used "Pam" spray on very warm steel as a finish, it lasts a while.

Great discovery and fine style!  Thanks

On Jul 5, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Paul Tomlinson wrote:

> 
> 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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