the rust remover

Better hope he doesn’t follow you on the web :-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

you just did…:D

-- Life is a sales job.

WD-40 and steel wool (or a plastic scrubbie ) will also do it for future reference.

-- jstegall

If you wax and buff the surfaces with Johnson’s Paste Wax (original formula) you will never see rust again. Re-newing the wax about once per year is all you need to do.

-- "Heaven is North of the Bridge"

That would be horrifying, nice recovery.

-- Mike ...Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction

Looks good as new to me !

-- Eric

Good fix!!

-- Jack, Albuquerque

I am with you John, WD 40 and steel wool. The Johnson’s past wax.

-- Norman

wd-40 and scothbrite , then Paste wax is the long term fix. I just did a makeover on an old tablesaw that was left outside, uncovered throughout the Maine winter. Thing is as good as new now, Their loss my Gain…...yee haw.

that jointer looks great

-- Live by what you believe, not what they want you to believe.

I bought a used a table saw and had a similar issue. The pitting from the rust was pretty bad. I used WD40 and sanding screen to level it back out. Once metal rusts the damage is done and the once machined surface will never be the same but you can it back pretty close to where it was.

I’ve had great results with a product called evapo-rust (available at Harbor Freight and online). This stuff is amazing. You can even spray it on. One gallon will treat over 300 lbs. of metal. It is bio-degradeable and will not harm plastics.

there have been post about how fantastic Evapo rust is.
I’ve use rubbing compound and plastic scrubbing with a random orbital sander on top

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

I was given an old Eaton Edgerite table saw a few years ago.
It had rust on the top, but first I had to get the paint off it..It’d been used as a utility
table not a saw ! Orbital sander, scrapers, scotchbrite on the ROS, WD-40..and wax..
I thought about a bit of auto body filler for the biggest rust craters, but that’d be too much..
And for something so abused and ignored that has the orriginal 50’s half horse motor..it hums along beautifly.

-- Glen, Vernon B.C. Canada

don’t want to be the nay sayer…but..

If you are friends, you should tell him. Although you appear to have gotten most of the rust, unless you completely disassembled it, there may still be rust in the nooks and crannys, that will eventually show up.

If I ever loaned a tool to someone and found out this happened to it and they covered it up, not only would he not get anymore loaned tools, he would be in jeopardy of friendship status.

Although you should have known that leaving bare metal items exposed to the ambient weather, could cause rusting (i.e. look at your shovel in your outdoor shed), it was a simple accident/mistake.

If it were me, I would tell him and offer to do a through clean up along side him to make sure you got everything. He may be pissed when he first finds out, but in the long run, he will at least know you are trust worthy that if something does happen, you will make him aware and make it right.

Just my 2 cents.

Rob

-- Rob-Yorktown "Shop's still not done, Tools are bought, Wood is bought, need to find time to start a project.."