rust removal

Since I now have all that nice pretty metal I decided I should clean up the rest of it and put a coat of paint on it.

I started out covering it with naval jelly with poor results due to the thickness of the rust. I then started grinding through the rust with the angle head and finishing up with sanding disks on the die grinder. For the parts that are too odd shaped for the power tools I"ve been liberally applying the torch and burning the crap off. Then coating with naval jelly with much better results.

I"m now down to the gear box. Any suggestions on a quick way to get the bulk of the rust off before jellying it. I don"t think torching it would be a good idea. At the present time sand blasting isn"t an option.

There is actually a layer of paint under the rust. Until I got to grinding the rust off I never new it was supposed to be red.

Thanks,
Dan

You"ve probably done the right thing just it"s frozen to the input shaft. Keep soaking it with PB blaster and it might come free. Also post over in the Implements forum, someone may know more over there.

Le

I got lucky and the gear box cleaned up easier than everything else. Sanded down everything I could with the die grinder. Coated it down with Naval jelly then scrubbed with a small wire brush. Then when I had gotten everything I could get to by hand chucked a 1" cylinder wire brush in the die grinder and got everything else that I could.

The deck and gear box didn"t get cleaned up as well as the other parts but the paint job will last as long as it does and I"ll do a better job when I"m not pressed for time. I had to have it ready to paint tonight so I could load it tommorrow night.

Thanks
Le