hey adam savage here in my cave with a tool tip
that is a well it's a tool but it's a material tool tip um i've been working with steel for most
of the time i have been a maker i have been a welder since 1990 and when you work with steel you
have to deal with rust rust is just a thing that happens it happens in major ways it happens in
minor ways and getting rid of rust has always been a thing that i have done in various
ways either wd-40 or or steel wool and i've just discovered this new product
and it came about well here's what i'm here's what this whole tip is about is about
this stuff evapo rust super safe rust remover i discovered this stuff while obsessing
and going down the rabbit hole of watching youtube tool restoration videos and this is like
the bread and butter of those videos so you're always seeing them soak a bunch of rusty parts in
this stuff overnight and then pulling them out and they look fantastic i bought a gallon of this
and it worked gangbusters i actually it's hard for me to sing the praises of this enough it's
not like it's a miracle fluid but it is reusable so i've got it in a bin and i've regularly put
parts in that bin over the last couple of months and they keep coming out the next morning like
looking fantastic so i thought i would do a demo for you of two different use cases one kind of
normal one extreme to see what i'm talking about there are plenty of rust removers
on the market there are not a lot that are completely environmentally friendly
and also safe to be in contact with your skin my parts washer i don't mind touching the parts
washer fluid but it definitely dries out your skin and it says on the bottle you know don't use
don't have constant contact this does not it is non-toxic biodegradable safe on the skin and eyes
i'm not testing that and reusable i dig this stuff so uh yeah the reusable is a really amazing thing
here what i've got are two pieces that i am going to soak overnight in the uh evapo rust one is the
steel barrel of norm's tomatsuki blaster the blade runner blaster this has been sitting out and as
you can see it's got a little rust pattern on it now like i said in the past i might have done this
with steel wool and wd40 but what if you've got a finish that you want to maintain what if you
don't want a steel wool finish on your steel that's where this comes in it is literally like a
touchless rust remover which i really dig and then i went upstairs and found this monstrosity
i thought let's just see what it can do so we're going to soak both of these uh up uh
uh completely immersed in the evaporator rust overnight and tomorrow morning or for you 30
seconds from now we're going to see how we did there we go now there'll be a time lapse of me watching this all night
long and then i'll open it up all right it's part two time uh we are examining
the wonderful properties of this evapo rust my new favorite rust remover when last i left you i had
poured some over uh uh norms to manuzuki blaster barrel and also a crazy crazy rusty spring of mine
and we're about to pull them out of the evapo rust and see how they did full disclosure the results
you're going to see happen in my experience within 24 hours this has been soaking for three days
though um so if you end up noticing that it's that my results are a little better than what you
get after one night uh it may be that you want to soak it further i have not a b tested 24 hours
versus 72 hours so your mileage may vary but let's crack them and see how we did i've got a weird
little hair right there somewhere okay um yeah put the ah there it is there is norm's blaster barrel
and here is my spring there we go uh yeah so uh this stuff is totally safe for skin contact um i'm
pulling this out without any wiping i believe you can see that it seems relatively smooth of
any rust but let's just hit it with a cloth oh it's been it's been sitting on its base i
probably should have pulled it after 24 hours sorry norm um but here we go yeah i i know
that's a little bit unfortunate but this is it's literally the bottom of the barrel is it
the bottom of the barrel wait wait wait yeah that's the bottom of the barrel yeah i had it
sitting on its left side uh at any rate the rust she is gone yeah i i love this stuff and i can
pour this stuff right back in that bottle and use it again um here is the spring let's this
was the tougher use case let's see how we did this was caked in rust all
right let's wipe this off oh yeah look at that it's just all this
rust is pouring off of it actually hold on yeah so this is the final step for rust
that is this intense the uh the liquid has soaked in but there's no scrubbing
action from the liquid um yeah that's i i you know it's not perfect but it's fantastic
i look i love this thing for restoring old tools this stuff is totally fantastic i am super
happy with it and i love that it's both reusable and that it doesn't damage my delicate
delicate hands thank you guys for joining me for this tool tip um by all means share pictures of
the things you clean of rust in the comments i am as obsessed as you are with watching
people restore old crap on youtube it is just an endlessly delightful genre and
i'm glad to contribute to it if that's in fact what this tool tip does i will see you guys next
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