[Chrysler300] 57 - 59 grill U nuts

[Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  And here's the rest of the story -- Rusty parts like my grill U-nuts 
that are too small or intricate to sandblast can be a real PIA, but this 
worked so slick I gotta tell you how I did it.

I took about an ounce of Lysol blue liquid toilet bowl cleaner and mixed 
it with an ounce of motor oil.  I dropped the clips in the mixture and 
pulled them out just a few hours later.  All the rust was gone and I had 
bare metal parts.  The Lysol removes the rust, and the oil keeps the 
parts from immediately re-oxidizing, just like when you quench tempered 
steel.  Then I rinsed and cleaned them with detergent water, after which 
I swished them in naphtha and dried them.  I love making the chemicals 
do the work - just try not to breathe that stuff.

Next I made a small thin 50/50 mixture of black Rustoleum and naphtha, 
dipped the U-nuts in there, pulled them out, and hung them up to dry.  
The next day I lined them up and sprayed them with a coat of semi-gloss 
black enamel.  A couple hours later I laid them on a sheet of aluminum 
foil and put them in my wife's oven at 350 degrees for an hour.  This 
morning they have a satin sheen baked enamel black finish on them that's 
hard like a rock.  Beautiful.

I think the old ad motto was "Better Living Through Chemistry"

Keith Boonstra



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