How to Remove Rust with Vinegar Baking Soda | Rusty Bolt Restore Tumbler Polish

Polishing and removing rust from some old bolts and brake parts using white vinegar and baking soda. After removing rust, I polish them up with a media tumbler and ultrasonic cleaner/degrease. Pretty impressive how the 5% acidity can eat away rust and corrosion. Keep in mind it also removes galvanized coatings...if that is important to you. Needed if metal you have is being welded, galvanize is bad.

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#rustremoval #Vinegar #corrosionremoval

0:00 Rusty Bolt Removal
1:15 Vinegar Soaking
2:30 Baking Soda Neutralize
3:30 Wipe and Brush Clean
4:50 Tumbler Media Polishing
6:35 Ultrasonic Cleaning
8:50 Results after Clearcoat

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[TunerwithKids]

Check my muriatic acid rust removal video-

[everythingfootball]

I appreciate your taking the time to put this together. It gave me ideas for when I want something very clean. Something I wonder about…bolt threads have a finish that results in an amount of friction. The friction takes away from the stretch of the bolt which is what holds the joints together under vibration and temperature cycling. Just be aware of too rough of a surface finish on the bolt threads. Thanks again for your video.

[masterbastard]

Don't know if I like the term "stripped clean" to describe a bolt lol, great info tho 👍

[benwilson]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned, but I would try quenching your bolts instead of painting them, I'm only just playing with it for my cafe/brawler bike build, but it's working a treat, leaves an awesome finish, and keeps them very resistant to corrosion without chipping or cracking (paint will) on the surface when torquing your bolts down. FYI don't quench the springs though, as it would affect the spring steel..

[spagez]

Thank you for making it look easy. I'll be doing this when I refresh my IS300 suspension. But I plan to finish it with zinc plating and yellow passivate since I live in MD where the roads are salted in winter.

[kalenlarsen]

anyway the reason im here is because im building grandma a coffee table here in vietnam and i want to reuse some small nails but they are pretty rusty so im gonna clean them up with vinegar and baking soda like you did here. shouldnt be too bad i only need around 30 or so, thanks for the tips.

[doggydangerous]

Cool! All your missing now is a zinc plating kit.

[danjim]

Now get the stuff to re zinc coat them. I hope to do that with some of my old ATC bolta

[Reaper-tdnf]

Don’t use straight vinegar on cast iron. Use 50/50 vinegar and water. Straight vinegar will pit cast iron.

[dyziplen.]

Ingenious! Always wanted a tumbler and a sonic washer..

[StriViK]

Very nice, will use this technique to clean engine bolts and finally get them anodized

[zdravkomomci]

Well done, I knew vinegar and baking soda work, but wasnt sure the application procedure, like first the vinegar to soak first then wash it with b soda and water the rust lifting, thanks for the upload Im now cleaning my rusty engine core block with vinegar soak first should get the crud out when I flush it with b soda save me $$ cheers

[Junior-fdux]

Thanks for the info... I had a 05 Sienna once..it was gifted to me when i was in a bad place financially. I was bummed out about it being a van... But omg what id do to get that van back...talk about reliability? Change the timing belt every 90-100k and routine regular maintenance. I had the awd version and live in new england and swear it was better in the snow then plow trucks i have. Not to mention nobody looks at you, cops never pulled me over for sleeping.. Man do i miss that ride.. You've got some other nice cars man i like your taste. Subbed

[evil_musclemuscled]

Eastwood used to sell a dye for metals like this . Don't know if they sell it anymore or of it was any good

[turksinnovations]

Try nickel plating them (electrolysis) after vinegar treatment. I'm gonna start doing this for my ratchets and sockets.

[briancradicsandiego]

This has to be one of the first videos I watched where are the person who is handling material is wearing gloves. I see so many videos or people will sandblast or abrasive blast a parts rust free and then just touch the bare metal with their oily fingers.

[BillyGirlardo]

Never heard of these tools, so good thing I clicked on this for 'rust removal' lol. I'm trying to get a rusted bolt out of a trailer hitch on my truck, so I don't see how I could immerse it overnight or even get to the threads past where I hacksawed it - any ideas? Either way, thanks for the chemistry class flashback!

[ka]

How about using a wire brush and cleaning out the threads? A job worth doing … is worth doing well!

[dannyaustin]

I've never heard Alkali referred to as Basic before. Every day's a school day

[boydsargeant]

Good video! I guess it’s not too much more effort to Cad plate them. I nickel plate watch parts and that’s pretty easy, lots of videos on that on YT.