HOW I REMOVED RUST WITH VINEGAR: a beginner's DIY guide to rust removal // easy, effective, cheap

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In this episode I remove some rust from some old shower curtain hooks with vinegar and salt. Pretty easy one. #readiysteadiy
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[polly]

These came up beautiful. I'm going to spend some time, and not too much money, on cleaning up a rusted chrome and glass bathroom stand. It's sturdy and otherwise fine, so fingers crossed! Like you, I'd rather not send it to land fill. And I'd like to use whatever money I save by not replacing it with something that _has_ to be bought new... like paint for the walls! Thanks so much for your advice.

[bunndyboy]

Experience, ordinary white vinegar took the chrome off my F clamps in 18 hours. They looked horrible, all pitted and half black. I don't recommend soaking chrome in vinegar for long periods of time

[chrisboileau]

Worked really well on our metal shower rod

[sisforshayla]

Thanks for this. I tried soaking in CLR but that didn't work, your solution did the trick 👍

[dripppr]

Im trying to clean my weight set an prevent it anymore but the weights an bar are kinda huge compared to the vinegar but its not to much rust yet an i wanna stop it befor it gets worse an restore an bring it back to its beauty do you think i can reuse the same vinegar for all of them or change it after every 2-3 objects

[redwhitebluechick]

I was given some old metal crochet hooks that are very rusted. I would love to try to clean them then put them in a shadow box afterwards. I don't need alot of vinegar maybe about 1/2 a cup so how much salt?