Morris Minor Owners Club

I do not have access to media blasting so for years I have relied on chemical stripping of paint and then chemical rust removal.

My rust remover of choice has been Evaporust but this is expensive and very slow. It can take a week to de-rust stuff and that makes the process of stripping, de-rusting and painting really tedious.

I decided to try something different after seeing a head-to-head comparison of Evaporust vs Bilt Hamber Deox-C. I am really pleased with the results. The Bilt Hamber is much faster than Evaporust, much cheaper and it seems like the working solution can be used for longer. It's British too (from Essex).

This test is on 2x 7" rear brake drums as a test run before restoring a set of Wolseley 9" brakes. Any rust you see in the photos is "flash rust" which has occurred after the drums were de-rusted. I will paint them today.

The de-rusting is much, much faster with a hot solution and even better with ultrasound. A heated ultrasonic cleaner is ideal. For bigger parts I used a big stainless steel preserving pan on the stove!

Stephen

Since you mention it works best heated, was this the powder -just add water- version?
(they do a gel version too, have a bottle of it but as yet not used any)

Yes the powder. You can carry on using the made up solution until it goes black.

Stephen

Poached brake drum anyone?

Not wishing to hijack your thread, but.....

Molasses apparently works well, the American hotrod and resto boys appear to love it, and there's plenty of info on the net about it, horse owners often have it so you may be able to try some for free if you know any horsey people,

Regards media blasting lots of companies have blasting facilities and will often take on small jobs for people, small companies are often the ones to approach as they tend to be more flexible regards walk in jobs,

We media blast for countless customers, and blast all manner of different items, from steel, alloy, wood, glass, 0lastics etc, so if you do get stuck don't be afraid to approach local companies and ask.