[TheForge] Rust-proofing mild steel - accidental discovery

[Paul Tomlinson]

Hi Peter,

I used plain olive oil, it works but no better than mineral oil. The 
garlic is what does the trick.

Commercial sprays would never have the amount garlic I have in mine, 
but try it and see, how can it hurt.

and as you say 'vampires be gone!'

Paul


At 02:07 PM 2011.07.08, you wrote:
>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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