Rusty chains and binders

Pay absolutely no attention to him, he just makes stuff up.

 

Gearjammer 79 beat me to it with the neon paint. Much harder to lose them.
I get a quart of the milky white rust remover and rubber gloves and a 3"chip brush and treat the chain.
Takes like 10 minutes. Turns it black with a chemical conversion process that coats the steel.
The Key to stopping rust from forming in the first place is to exclude the oxygen.
After I treat the chains I use the upside down line striping paint in fluorescent green.
Goes on thick and amazingly, stays on about a year.
Forgot one of my 10" hook chains in a lot where I was working,
went back to get it - and it was partially covered in the big oak leaves,
I Still could see it driving in from 30 feet away.

 

You can chemicall treat your chains/binders with Evapo rust product.

 

On the cheap? 5 gal bucket with a tight lid, add chain and couple shovels of dry small pea gravel. Put the lid on and let the kids roll it around.

 

I am interested , what is the product?

 

This is good advice ^^^. Works well.
I have a large electrolysis tank I need to finish for bigger things.

 

Almost lol
But they do make a piece of equipment that does just that.
It’s called an industrial tumbler and it’s made for cleaning rust and oxide of metal parts.
It’s a large tub filled with special media and then it spins slow and tumbles the metal parts around in the media until all the rust is off.
It kind of looks like a huge clothes dryer that has to many wet towels in it and is spinning off balance.

 

Also the place where I saw this had a galvanizing tank they put the clean metal parts in afterward.
The day I was there they galvanized a complete car frame.
They did everything from small parts to huge bridge beams that’s how big the tank was.

 

Yes Sir, we use a tumbler for cleaning brass for reloading. Kinda where I got the idea lol. Didn't know they had a version for cleaning bigger things though, good to know thank you. And at International Paper in Nitro they use a similar process to grind paper, called the ball mill. Balls have teeth in a sense and shreds the paper as it turns like a cement mixer.

 

it is so simple: a old school cement mixer and 3 bags of dry playsand
1 chain at a time and let it run for 10 to 15 min and check
until clean
then into a 5 gal bucket with a fifty fifty mix of cheap oil and diesel
two or three chains in the bucket (fully covered) for a week
then rinse with dish soap and water and hang to dry