[TheForge] Rust-proofing mild steel - accidental discovery

[Jerry Frost]

Sounds interesting Paul, certainly worth a try. Pam puts out a garlic, olive 
oil spray or used to anyway.

As far as violent outgassing if too tightly capped, no worry here, none of 
us are too tightly capped on a good day and we tend to outgas a little at a 
time nearly continusously. <grin>

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Tomlinson" <paul at fongkong.net>
To: <TheForge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 2:48 AM
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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