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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:30 am
by DaveEFI
unstable load wrote:Depending on exactly what that is, you should keep it far away from the shiny bits as it will corrode stainless steel if it is this stuff.....
http://www.tergo.co.nz/Tech%20Data/HTML ... salts.html
Central heating boilers often have a SS heat exchanger these days.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:20 am
by unstable load
DaveEFI wrote:
unstable load wrote:Depending on exactly what that is, you should keep it far away from the shiny bits as it will corrode stainless steel if it is this stuff.....
http://www.tergo.co.nz/Tech%20Data/HTML ... salts.html
Central heating boilers often have a SS heat exchanger these days.
Aaah, Houston, we could have a problem, over......

Get hold of some Phosphoric acid and mix it to ratio with hot water, dip the parts in and watch it foam away. Smells bad and is pretty nasty stuff, but works a treat.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:17 am
by kiwicar
Phosphoric acid and hot water nice! ! ! ! :nutz
Best regards
Mike

PS tell me do you me do you mix equal parts sulphuric, hydrochloric and nitric acids, add glycerine, boil off the water and drink the resulting liquid to relieve high blood pressure? ? ? ? ?

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:16 pm
by Ian Anderson
kiwicar wrote:Phosphoric acid and hot water nice! ! ! ! :nutz
Best regards
Mike

PS tell me do you me do you mix equal parts sulphuric, hydrochloric and nitric acids, add glycerine, boil off the water and drink the resulting liquid to relieve high blood pressure? ? ? ? ?
And there I was thinking you were giving out yout patented fuel recipe for the slingshot!

Ian

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:30 pm
by kiwicar
Hi Ian,
no just a little fuel addative. . . TNT !
Mike
Edit
sorry that should be nitroglycerine. . .

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:15 am
by unstable load
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoric_acid
Rust removal

Phosphoric acid may be used as a "rust converter", by direct application to rusted iron, steel tools, or surfaces. The phosphoric acid converts reddish-brown iron(III) oxide, Fe2O3 (rust) to black ferric phosphate, FePO4.

"Rust converter" is sometimes a greenish liquid suitable for dipping (in the same sort of acid bath as is used for pickling metal), but it is more often formulated as a gel, commonly called naval jelly. It is sometimes sold under other names, such as "rust remover" or "rust killer". As a thick gel, it may be applied to sloping, vertical, or even overhead surfaces.

After treatment, the black ferric-phosphate coating can be scrubbed off, leaving a fresh metal surface. Multiple applications of phosphoric acid may be required to remove all rust. The black phosphate coating can also be left in place, where it will provide moderate further corrosion resistance (such protection is also provided by the superficially similar Parkerizing and blued electrochemical conversion coating processes).

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:02 pm
by Mark
I had to get the car back on the dolly's so I could turn it around outside and then get it back in the garage the other way round so I could start on the rot on the passenger side which is worse than the drivers side for rust...

Before it was moved I sprayed the parts that are now good with 2 part epoxy primer to keep the surface rust at bay.

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Considering taking a week off work to try and get it a bit further along as the odd day here and there does not seem to make much of an impact !

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:15 pm
by stevieturbo
Is that a brush on or spray on stuff ?

At least it's certainly down to good clean metal before you paint anyway.

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:42 pm
by Mark
stevieturbo wrote:Is that a brush on or spray on stuff ?

At least it's certainly down to good clean metal before you paint anyway.
It can be brushed or sprayed on.

I sprayed it to make sure it got into the nooks and crannies :D

Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 10:25 pm
by Mark
Well I took a week off work, managed to muller the back of my hand with a wire wheel in an electric drill whilst cleaning up the near side seat mounting plate :( no pics of the gore :lol:

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Fixing the rust on the tunnel, cut out the bad bit ground out the rot and zinc primed.

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Welded up and ground down.

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Cut out the floor to replace ARB captive nuts and repair the bit 'tards use to jack Sierra's up with along the the damaged original jacking point.

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Near side rear chassis rail rot

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After loads of cutting, welding, wire wheeling and grinding it's nearly fixed

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Skanky bodged sill repair is next on the to do list

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This is as far as I got in a week :oops:

Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 10:44 pm
by stevieturbo
Looking good.

Those wire wheels can cause some serious damage. Ive been lucky a few times using them. I almost always wear gloves of some sort. Even light gloves will take the hit before your skin does and they have saved me a few times.

I just buy packs of 10 pairs of gloves so Ive always some lying about the garage somewhere, so no excuse not to put them on when using a grinder etc. Even if some of them almost go on fire from the sparks lol

Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 11:15 pm
by Mark
stevieturbo wrote:Looking good.

Those wire wheels can cause some serious damage. Ive been lucky a few times using them. I almost always wear gloves of some sort. Even light gloves will take the hit before your skin does and they have saved me a few times.

I just buy packs of 10 pairs of gloves so Ive always some lying about the garage somewhere, so no excuse not to put them on when using a grinder etc. Even if some of them almost go on fire from the sparks lol
It was gloves that caused the damage :shock:

The drill slipped and the wire wheel caught the back of the glove and then wound itself into the back of my hand finally stalling the drill :(

Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 11:26 pm
by stevieturbo
oops lol.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 9:27 am
by Bunjmk3
Wow what a great build thread, you really are going to town on that floor.

Gotta say though coving in a garage.... thats no ordinary garage, thats M and S garage.

Bunj.

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:20 pm
by bodger
excellent job ... its only when you see them like thsi that you realise how shitty they are put together at fords ..

never seen so many panels on top of panels on panels and hiiden baffles etc :shock: