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so I used my sealed 30 cal can on my SKS and used cheap surplus ammo. It was fun. I fired around 300 shots. I put the can in the safe and left it for around 4 months. I get it out today and its totally rusty on the inside.
with out opening it up whats my options if any?
I have it in a bucket of oil now
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sub-sonic wrote:so I used my sealed 30 cal can on my SKS and used cheap surplus ammo. It was fun. I fired around 300 shots. I put the can in the safe and left it for around 4 months. I get it out today and its totally rusty on the inside.
with out opening it up whats my options if any?
I have it in a bucket of oil now
You are doing the only remedy to dealing with rust in a sealed can.

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If its carbon steel you do have options other than oil.
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Capt. Link. wrote:If its carbon steel you do have options other than oil.
CLR? Or is that too harsh?
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I have some stuff in a gray bottle that comes from Harbor Freight (& probably elsewhere). It's called EvapoRust. You just dunk the rusty stuff in it for 30 min to overnight depending on how bad it is. I haven't tried it on anything pitted/really bad, but it makes quick work of surface rust. That & a bottle brush would probably do wonders for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsyAg77ljKE Here's a video of some in use. The guy didn't seem too impressed with it but it looks like it did a good job to me considering how little effort was involved.

Also wondered about using it in a US cleaner - that might be a good method to get the insides where a bottle brush won't reach.
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MV10 wrote:
Capt. Link. wrote:If its carbon steel you do have options other than oil.
CLR? Or is that too harsh?
No you can chemically change iron oxide (red rust) to ferric oxide (black rust) and that can be passivated into a neutral state.
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Capt. Link. wrote:
MV10 wrote:
Capt. Link. wrote:If its carbon steel you do have options other than oil.
CLR? Or is that too harsh?
No you can chemically change iron oxide (red rust) to ferric oxide (black rust) and that can be passivated into a neutral state.
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Couldn't you also remove the rust with electrolysis?

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There is a rust converter type solution you use on old cars to turn the rust into a hard black coating.... It might be the same stuff you are mentioning.
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vz58 wrote:There is a rust converter type solution you use on old cars to turn the rust into a hard black coating.... It might be the same stuff you are mentioning.
You could always soak it in CocaCola, I have been told that it dissolves rust!

As far as preventing more there are some very costly solutions IF you can 100% remove the rust prior to the processing.

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Sorry for long delay cutting threads 8) tonight.
You are right chrismartin give that man a +1
But after wards the metal must be sealed or rust will continue.
All oil must be removed dawn dish soap is best.You must scour the metal of rust scale.If you plug the holes with dowel pins and use a lathe or rock tumbler sand or another abrasive could be used.
A mild acid or iodine will etch the metal and bring out fresh mild rust.Boiling water will change the red rust to Black ferric oxide. Ammonia will halt the rusting.
You must have a even coat of fine rust as that will protect the metal.Boiling times between acid treatments is 5 to 10 minutes.followed by a hour long boil in fresh water then the ammonia and flush with clear water add a little oil and your done.Or clean the hell out of it remove all the oil and drop it in a pot of caustic bluing salts.PM me I have bluing pots :D
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vz58 wrote:There is a rust converter type solution you use on old cars to turn the rust into a hard black coating.... It might be the same stuff you are mentioning.
The stuff they use in body shops is called Rust Mort, stops rust and turns it black.
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I sometimes do the same thing on parts for my '55 Buick with citric acid powder. I bought a big old bag of it on ebay (something like 15 pounds of the stuff) for about $20, and a few teaspoons of it mixed with a gallon of water will clean up old bolts and other small parts in a few hours. However, that black layer has to be scrubbed clean afterwards, which is why I didn't suggest it.

On the other hand, rusted parts that I've cleaned with CLR (which is considerably more expensive, relatively speaking) will come clean with a simple rinse-off.

Citric acid is the reason Coke and certain other food products will remove rust.
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MV10 wrote:I sometimes do the same thing on parts for my '55 Buick with citric acid powder. I bought a big old bag of it on ebay (something like 15 pounds of the stuff) for about $20, and a few teaspoons of it mixed with a gallon of water will clean up old bolts and other small parts in a few hours. However, that black layer has to be scrubbed clean afterwards, which is why I didn't suggest it.

On the other hand, rusted parts that I've cleaned with CLR (which is considerably more expensive, relatively speaking) will come clean with a simple rinse-off.

Citric acid is the reason Coke and certain other food products will remove rust.
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Back to the more mundane, rust. I have successfully, as posted here sometime ago,
use white vinegar in a plastic pan over night. Then washed with baking soda and water.
I then take quadruple zero steel wool ( XXXX ) to shine the metal. Finish with a wipe of
30W motor oil.

Still having developing chemicals such as a gallon of glacial acetic acid I occasionally mix
10cc's into a quart of water ... N.B. order, please, acid poured slowly into the water, else
reverse order produces a dangerous splash.
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this is my 30cal freeze plug silencer
I have it in oil but I will wash it out and try CLR then try to find a way to prevent it rusting again
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I'd try the Evapo-Rust first just because it is less aggressive & harmless to the base metal. And CLR sucks - even for basic household use like getting the white chalky buildup (calcium) off a faucet or showerhead or getting a rust stain off porcelain it just doesn't do a good job.

Whatever you use, as prevention maybe blow it out real good with compressed air after the final rinse & use a fogging oil like what you'd use for putting an engine in storage? Or just dunk in oil & let the excess drip out
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OXY-CLEAN!!! I'll spare you the commercial parody but, imagine Billy Mazing in your minds... :D

Seriously, there's no reason why you shouldn't take as good a care of your suppressors as you do your guns. After every shoot, I do the bottle brush routine with break-free, blow out the can, and shoot a little Rem-oil or WD-40 in there. Then they're put back in the box with a silica gel packet. The bottle brush doesn't get everywhere in there but, I figure it can't hurt and, probably helps somewhat.

It may only be a "feel good" measure on my part but, it's cheap insurance and, I've never had rust... Anywhere.
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mollinst wrote:OXY-CLEAN!!! I'll spare you the commercial parody but, imagine Billy Mazing in your minds... :D

Seriously, there's no reason why you shouldn't take as good a care of your suppressors as you do your guns. After every shoot, I do the bottle brush routine with break-free, blow out the can, and shoot a little Rem-oil or WD-40 in there. Then they're put back in the box with a silica gel packet. The bottle brush doesn't get everywhere in there but, I figure it can't hurt and, probably helps somewhat.

It may only be a "feel good" measure on my part but, it's cheap insurance and, I've never had rust... Anywhere.

I clean mine one time a year even if they dont need it
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Yeah - every 1000 rnds whether it needs it or not! :lol:
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sub-sonic wrote:
mollinst wrote:OXY-CLEAN!!! I'll spare you the commercial parody but, imagine Billy Mazing in your minds... :D

Seriously, there's no reason why you shouldn't take as good a care of your suppressors as you do your guns. After every shoot, I do the bottle brush routine with break-free, blow out the can, and shoot a little Rem-oil or WD-40 in there. Then they're put back in the box with a silica gel packet. The bottle brush doesn't get everywhere in there but, I figure it can't hurt and, probably helps somewhat.

It may only be a "feel good" measure on my part but, it's cheap insurance and, I've never had rust... Anywhere.

I clean mine one time a year even if they dont need it
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No Historian, I don't think Harry uses a bottle brush. :wink:
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sub-sonic wrote:so I used my sealed 30 cal can on my SKS and used cheap surplus ammo. It was fun. I fired around 300 shots. I put the can in the safe and left it for around 4 months. I get it out today and its totally rusty on the inside.
with out opening it up whats my options if any?
I have it in a bucket of oil now

Just wondering as to the condition of the rifle bore?
I always clean my bore the same day as it is fired, except one time, Few years back I forgot and cleaned my 10/22 5 days after I’d used it.
The barrel bore was PITTED :oops: I now use SS barrels when going suppressed.
I have read that ss barrels can rust but haven't experenced that yet.
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mollinst wrote:Yeah - every 1000 rnds whether it needs it or not! :lol:
actually I have only cleaned this one (30cal) twice before and the 5.56 one has been cleaned 2 times in 4 years or 1 time for every 10K (guestimated)

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sub-sonic wrote:so I used my sealed 30 cal can on my SKS and used cheap surplus ammo. It was fun. I fired around 300 shots. I put the can in the safe and left it for around 4 months. I get it out today and its totally rusty on the inside.
with out opening it up whats my options if any?
I have it in a bucket of oil now

Just wondering as to the condition of the rifle bore?
I always clean my bore the same day as it is fired, except one time, Few years back I forgot and cleaned my 10/22 5 days after I’d used it.
The barrel bore was PITTED :oops: I now use SS barrels when going suppressed.
I have read that ss barrels can rust but haven't experenced that yet.

The rifle bore on the SKS is fine.The silencer was stored seperatlly. Yes I did clean the SKS
I am not big on cleaning. I have guns that have not been cleaned since last year. My AR has been used alot and I dont remember when it last got cleaned its got to be 6 months ago and I used it today and it still put in .25" at 100. Cleaning is over rated
I only clean my .22's when they start to malfunction. I would guess that half the guns I own need to be cleaned. Thats because I have not used the others since they were last cleaned

so back to my rust problem. I took it out of the oil and washed it in some degreaser and will take it to work tomorrow and run it in the parts cleaner a few times and see how it looks and then decide on whats the next step.
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If you ship it east I can drop it in the salt bath.
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mollinst wrote:No Historian, I don't think Harry uses a bottle brush. :wink:
+1!

Hey, many of us would gladly pay Rot-O-Rooter to loan him a 'brush' ...
clean out his tonsils at the same time. :)

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