Rust

Not on trains yet, but it worked great on other items I tried.

From Evapo-Rust's website.  Just click on the underlined word.

But for sure.  I bought a big container of this stuff and it ain't cheap.  However, it works great and well worth the cost.  My last project was a 259e and tender which both were badly rusted.  Couldn't have completed the project with out the Evaporust.

Bud

Works great. Best solution to remove rust, but it will also take the paint, so be careful. Gets rid of non-pitting surface rust in 6 hours.

sounds like good stuff, I am going to try it

I get mine from Amazon about 20 bucks a gal and you can use it over and again. On the stuff I used it on it left the paint alone.

Dave

DK&J RAILROAD

I use EvapoRust on a bunch of stuff that got caught in the Sandy floods.  It worked great, I was super-impressed how good a job it did.  It's part of my basic clean-up chemical stock now.

How does it compare to Navel Jelly?

Tom, Slower, safer (I think). Its citrus based. Like cleaning with acidic orange juice.

 I found some marx litho lifting at about six-9 hours. Mostly from the edges of bare rust spots, creeping on rust that was just under the paints surface.

 Agitate often with a stiff brush to really speed up worse stuff.

 The paint that stayed put, looks great. It cleaned that too.

I don't throw it away till its very nasty. I rebottle, and reuse it. 

Simply put, EvapoRust is the best thing since bubble gum. From my own experience, it is the prewar collectors dream come true.

Tom Tee, Give it a try. You may never use Navel Jelly again. IMHO

I think Navel Jelly is much more aggressive.  OTOH, EvapoRust attacks just the rust chemically and leaves any base metal intact.  I was truly astonished how well it dealt with even significantly rusted pieces.  It's also non-toxic, you don't have to wear a mask and rubber gloves to handle the stuff.  You can also reuse it, it just gets slower as you "wear it out".  I have a gallon that I've used a bunch of times, still pretty effective when I need to derust something.

Tom,

The way I use it... get a storage tub just size you need to submerge the rusted piece and watch it work!

Dave

DK&J RAILROAD

Has anyone tried it on tubular O gauge? How does it deal with the insulator?

Dave

DK&J RAILROAD 

Submerging the part is the way that EvapoRust is supposed to be used.  As with any paper product, the fish paper insulator on O-gauge track will be degraded if you soak it long enough.

In my experience it doesn't remove paint, but can remove the chemical blackening. I used it on an MPC GP20 frame that was rusted. It took all the rust away along with the coloring. I was left with a very nice and shiny clean piece of metal to paint. Just be careful about what could be taken away with the rust. I don't know about decals, etc. but would be careful with them and would try not to submerge the decals.

It's pretty hard on decals, but doesn't affect any paint I've experienced.  One issue is if the rust is under the paint, it'll flake right off.  This wasn't an issue with me, as I figured the paint was already compromised.

I submerged whole power trucks and even drive motors in it to derust them, I managed to save every motor and truck on half a dozen locomotives.

I also discovered that Lionel's paint rusted underneath much worse than MTH paint.  Many of the Lionel and K-Line car frames had the paint peeling off in sheets, most of the MTH stuff had barely any rust issues under the paint.

I'll let everyone know when my center rails start shorting out.

Super O, O, and 0-27.

 I ran a cold and hot water rinses, with a light baking soda solution soak for a bit.

I'm about three years into it.

  I've used it to "save" some of the worst, rusty crusty track contactors, and isolated  rail clip-ons, you've ever seen too.

  Like Tell-tale pole clips that had the pole tabs literally rusted off, and track clips that wouldn't budge. I used a screw through the hole between the tabs, and wood dowel tell-tale poles. The track clips freed themselves once the rust washed away, and they got new ignition distributor springs, I had bouncing around. 

"Naval" Jelly is phosphoric acid.

"Navel" jelly would be something that fell out if your pb&j sandwich and got past your napkin. 

Spelling is the essence of written language; misspelling is good for a real laugh, now and then.

Oh....That's what's so sticky. Thanks 

Evaporust is now being sold at auto parts stores Like Advance Auto and Ocharlies auto parts. You don't have to order it anymore. Its great stuff!

Rob

It's in Lowes and Home Depot as well.

...and 'toe jam' is when it falls even further!?

And yet..... 'spell check' couldn't care less!!

KD