Re: [Chrysler300] 57 - 59 grill U nuts

[Bill Leahy <bleahy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

boom boom (keith)

  better becarefull  what you mix together...things might go boom boom.

billlllll in hot kennewick, washington


On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Keith Boonstra wrote:

>  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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