Vinegar works miracles.
 

I wasn't sure where to post this, so here goes.

It's a slide show that depicts how vinegar can remove rust. I found it posted on another forum this morning. Enjoy.

http://www.cookhaus.co.uk/vinegar/index.htm

wow them did clean up good

I knew vinegar does a lot of different things, but never used it on rust. I will definitely try it though. :humm:

I got to try this out.

Hmm, where are those small rust holes? Vinegar has no hole fill up abilities...:moon:
Coca-Cola does work also very good on rust( it does contain a huge amount of phosphor acid), but it also can't repair rust bites.

That lloks great, but how much did you have to scrub it(hard, soft). and did you let it soak or just start scrubbing?

me too :tu:

This summer if anyone gets a bad sunburn, rub white vinegar
on, and pain will go away.

this man speaks the truth.....

So I know that vinegar works great on water stains- but rust has a complete different composition.

Do an experiment with Coca-Cola. Throw your rusty tools into Coca-Cola and after a couple of days they look almost as new.
I tried that and it works.

Coca-Cola on sunburns does not work...:c:

but too much Crown and Coca-Cola can cause you to receive sunburns.....

you also can skip the Cola...:s:

I have an old rusty wrench in the truck I think I will try this with when I get home to see how well it really does work.

Pics of before and after would be awesome.

Vinegar or CC?:w2:

pretty impressive....but i think he needed some fish and chips with that malt vinegar.

Does it matter if you use malt vinegar or white?

Hmm... I don't know. I would try which ever is cheaper first. If you haven't already done your rusty wrench (Say that repeatedly and fast!!) then do it in vinegar first. We all know cola works.... It would be nice to know how vinegar fairs.

Thats pretty neat!

Does regular viniger work at removing water stains on windshields?

i herd it was good in the radiater to flush out.. but not sure witch one they said worked?

Vinegar also gets rid of athlete's foot and blackheads... Apple Cider Vinegar works the best but I think any of them would. Stinks kinda bad though :s:

I was using Tinactin for 4 freaking weeks with almost no improvement, switched to vinegar and 2hrs later my feet were almost cleared right back up again.

Hiking boots, humidity, 5 days and 75km with a 60lb pack don't do so well for the feet.

yes, use vinegar and old newspaper on windshields, cleans extremly good. Used in those antique stores to clean glass doors of furnitures.
Bad smell in the cab? Place a plate with vinegar at the floor. Smell will be gone...

Apple cider vinegar is great for killing weeds and grass, works better than Roundup!

Is that sunburn and vinegar thing true!

good to know thaNKS

Best when placed all over a bucket of homemade french fries also....LOL.

Thats crazy. I will have to try this one some of my rusted up parts.... hopefully ill be able to put up some pictures as well...
ps the shafts look amazing. Great job restoring them!:tu:

I used white vinegar to clean a intake manifold worked really good. Had to leave it set for a couple days mixed it 50/50 with water and it soaked off 30+ years of grease and grime. Turns where the rust was black and that just washes off with water back down to bare steel.

I'd like to know more about this! How much do you put on, do you put it on straight and how long does it take to kill them little buggars. If this works better than Round Up it should be cheaper too! Wonder if a guy couldn't just use the old vinegar after cleaning up a bunch of parts? Then you would get double duty out of it. . . .

Rusty french fries? :yuck:

Does anybody know how much vinegar it takes to soak a 96 Ram 2500 ex cab, long bed ?:humm:

A lot more than it would take afterwards to powder coat it!! . . . .

(I like the way you think!! :yeah: )

Maybe we should make a 'vat' that will hold a large vehicle. I know of a lot of them that would benefit from it! We could make a fortune . . . . Here locally there is an oven large enough to powder coat a large vehicle so it would be a 'complete' service. (Can you imagine dis-assembling a whole vehicle so it could be de rusted and then powder coated? Then putting it back together. That would be a bunch of work!)

also good on sunburns, who knew:humm:

Still best on fish and chips though.

So I tried the vinegar myth. and it is more or less busted.

Vinegar is corrosive, it loosens rust, it also increases the corrosion.
I don't know how they got the pictures, but it was definetley no vinegar causing that clean surface.
It does work well on alloy, it is also aggressive to the surfaces, making them dull.
The prop shafts I have thrown in vinegar a week are still rusty as hell, yes, it loosened a bit, but still rusty.
Vinegar may work on scale deposits, there are better things like citric acid.

No way! I was really hoping this worked. Did you let the stuff soak for 24 hours and then hit it with a scrub brush?

Mike,
these shafts have been submerged a week in vinegar. Yes, the vinegar is dark brown and it solved a bit- but the shafts are still rusty.
I brushed them several times with an iron brush, coarse steel wool and dishwasher brushes(which are a real waste of time!)

I brought them away to get them sandblasted and powdercoated.
I have to admit, that it was a try to save money.

Apple cider vinegar helps with Heart burn/acid reflux,
1/2 a shot glass full in the morning.
But be prepared it taste's Bad!!! Chase with coffee or something.

This also helps with joint pain.

And yes it does work on Sun Burn,
Mom used to put it on us when we were kids.

Wow! Thanks for de-mything this for us. . . . I too was really hoping it would work and work well!

I was just finally looking into the weed killer aspect: I found this link that seems pretty level headed about it all (Just like how Deezel Stink3r did his test). You can read about it on this link:
Vinegar Weed Killer: Grandma's Recipe For Fast Weed Control
I also thought about the cost. I really don't know what it costs per gallon, but let's just compare it to a generic Glyphosate that you can get 2 1/2 gallons for about $50. So let's call that $60 just for easy math. I mix the name brand Round Up at about 1 1/2 oz. per gallon of water. So, again for easy math let's call that 2 oz. That means that for $60 that 2 1/2 gallons of glyphosate will make you about 160 gallons of weed killing spray. I'm pretty sure that vinegar is a lot more than $1 a gallon. So I guess I busted that myth too...... I wanted it to work. Even if it was a little more than the chemical I might have used it (Of course that article talked about how it doesn't kill the root and how some weeds came back from being sprayed.). I was going to use the waste vinegar after cleaning up rusty parts. . . . Oh well.