The Ultimate HOMEMADE Rust Remover (Better than EvapoRust)

This is by far the best way of removing rust for restoration. It only requires basic and harmless chemicals you probably already have at home. Cheap, easy and safe to do at home, it performs even better than Evaporust.

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[retro-mondo]

You talk non-stop for 14 minutes in a language that's not your mother tongue, and yet the info you are giving is precise, concise and incredibly informative. Grazie mille, sei un genio!👏

[iansanders]

As PhD chemist myself and an amateur mechanic I could not be more thrilled with your approach, description and result, this is YouTube at its very best! I salute you sir!

[masimak]

Evaporust corporate leadership calling an emergency morning meeting today

[JamieBainbridge]

You did it. You actually did it. A theoretical DIY rust remover better than Evapo-Rust has been the holy grail of garage mechanics forever. Wow!

[ImCannibalOfficial]

The recipe:
* Per 1L of H2O
1: 100grams Citric Acid.
2: 40grams Sodium Carbonate / 63Grams Sodium Bicarbonate / 30grams Sodium Hydroxide.
After reaction has completed, add final ingredient.
3: Arbitrary amount of liquid dish soap.

[LeeDaiYing]

This is gold. It was what YouTube started off as, for people like you, sharing precious information.

[peteraugust]

I wish you that every coffee you order ist just perfect. Men like you do not deserve any bad coffee!

[graxxor]

This is Peak YouTube! It is what the internet promised to be all those years ago! Beautifully explained, valuable information by a knowledgeable host all without baiting the audience.

[asennad]

I tried this formula today. 1 litre hot water, 100 grams citirc acid and 40 grams washing soda. Soaked an old rusty brake caliper over night. Came out looking like new! This works!

[thorvaldspear]

We gotta tell Project Farm about this ASAP

[mattl]

This formulation works AMAZINGLY well! I just tried it on a whole bin of rusty drill bits and it cleaned them perfectly in only 30 minutes. It didn't harm them at all and they're still sharp. And as is said in the video, the solution is STILL active and continues to clean. I've tried straight citric acid, oxalic acid, vinegar and so on and have never been happy with the results. But this simple chelating agent does the job perfectly. This is truly the best and most useful restoration video I've seen anywhere EVER. Thanks so much!

[jacobpapaemmanouil]

It appears that the citrate solution acts faster than the evapo-rust - which leads me to think that a better comparison test of the effective-ness of each solution, is to measure the base metal dissolution at the point where the rust has been removed. As opposed to waiting a certain amount of time for each solution to damage the base metals.

If the citrate solution is substantially faster than the evapo-rust, the part would require much less time in the solution, which would mitigate some of the increased base metal dissolution.

I would be interested to see a test of a uniformly (intentionally) rusted steel sheet, in both products, removed once the desired rust removal has occurred. Then measure the change to the host material (as well as the evolution of hydrogen from the adverse reaction if possible).

Another great video, I love these technical firearm videos!

[redfiddler]

There needs to be some sort of "blue collar" category for the Nobel Prize. I hereby nominate this man. I'm also certain that, if the gods are just, this video will end up with 100m views years from now. This is truly a Juggernaut of a discovery.

[benlaird]

I know this comment is likely too late to ever be seen, but ive taken your recipe and did some experimenting in an ultrasonic cleaner, at 50c the solution appears to be the most effective (tested from room temperature to boiling), ive been running the ultrasonic cleaner for 30min with out prepping the metal at all and it does a wonderful job, it allows the solution to penetrate threads and removes scale in places you cant access with other equipment. i submerged a cast aluminium water pump with metal bolts entirely seized and full of corrosion, after the treatment it spun freely, removed all corrosion and all bolts were removed with ease. thankyou.

[bevhor]

Fantastic! Stays on topic, extremely informative, and concise. No waffle, no unrelated stock images/video, well paced, no obnoxiously long channel intro, no BS. This is the standard all instructional videos should follow.

[ray.shoesmith]

Best legit channel on youtube. This guy is legit OG.

[alxf]

I now know why I was putting off de-rusting all my old rusty tools - I was waiting for the perfect DIY method. Now I have no excuse ! Great work !

[seanbaker]

Yeah! As a gunsmith, I look forward to your videos as much as i do Mark Novak's. You do a great job going into the chemistry details that other folk wont dare to do. Keep up the great work!

[thecasualcitizen]

I appreciate you giving the formula time location at the start however, after listening for a few minutes I realized that the information you provide is valuable and worth the time of listening. I subscribed.

[foggymtnbreakdown]

Excellent video!! Super!! I am so impressed. I am a chemist by the way. Did you test your solution with dish soap against a formulation without dish soap? You use the dish soap as a surfactant. A more effective and common surfactant is the liquid fabric softener that you use in the laundry. The next time you do your laundry, and there are bubbles all around, throw in a capful of liquid fabric softener. The bubbles will disappear because they need surface tension to form. I do agree that a surfactant is helpful in your formulation. From Wiki: "Rinse-cycle softeners usually contain cationic surfactants of the quaternary ammonium type as the main active ingredient." Keep making these great videos.