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HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!! 
#1 2009-10-23 2:31pm
HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a chrome frame and it has some minor surface rust, how do I remedy that? someone said vinager bath?????
Thanks
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#2 2009-10-23 2:34pm
- blindfaith420
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Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
Run it over with your truck
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#4 2009-10-23 2:38pm
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Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
No, but seriously... I use CLR/Oxyacilic acid(spelling?)
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#5 2009-10-23 2:39pm
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I have had good results with vinegar. Should do the trick on lightly rusted chrome. My biggest hassle is getting a large enough tub for a fram. You won't need as much vinegar if you soak some rags in it to lay on the fram vs. submerging the whole thing.
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#7 2009-10-23 2:40pm
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Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
moshnmore wrote:
blindfaith420 wrote:
Run it over with your truck
I tried that on mine, but all that did was compress it. Seriously, I suggest steel wool
Steel wool tends to trash the chrome and make it have a haze... Soak it, that's the way to go...
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#8 2009-10-23 2:46pm
Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
blindfaith420 wrote:
moshnmore wrote:
blindfaith420 wrote:
Run it over with your truck
Steel wool tends to trash the chrome and make it have a haze... Soak it, that's the way to go...
Steel woll seemed to work on all my chrome, but I used on my haro mirra, not wnowing the frame was clear coat just shot over the bare metal. Big mistake. I have never tried vinegar bath, but I will keep that in mind for future chrome cleaning 
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#9 2009-10-23 3:01pm
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Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
Srub with some joy and hot water, use some WD-40 with steel wool/ rinse and dry with fresh water. then buff it out with some chrome polish, one is just as good as the other, mothers or whatever, IMO. Then to protect it you can do some thin T-wax...looks good. Did this on my Pro-Raider and my wifes 73 Schwinn Breeze....sweet 
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#11 2009-10-23 4:50pm
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i have five chrome bikes steel wooled them all, stay low on the steel and you will be fine
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#13 2009-10-23 6:51pm
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moshnmore wrote:
blindfaith420 wrote:
Run it over with your truck
brass! never steel
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#14 2009-10-23 6:54pm
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tatmike wrote:
I have a chrome frame and it has some minor surface rust, how do I remedy that? someone said vinager bath?????
Thanks
Mike
forget vinegar. Citric Acid powder is what you need! Oxilic acid also works wonders.
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#16 2009-10-24 6:36pm
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go to your local pep boys or car parts store and get this stuff called nevr dull that's the correct spelling its made by eagle one. its a polish for all types of metal.this stuff works miracles i promise
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#17 2009-10-24 7:15pm
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moshnmore wrote:
blindfaith420 wrote:
Run it over with your truck
+1, but I use 0000 steel wool with mothers polish or brass wool, not crazy about vinegar because whats that doing to the inside of your frame?
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#18 2009-10-24 7:40pm
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Dude... search the forums for citric acid powder (CAP). There are a couple of great "how to" threads. I've tried many other methods, but CAP is DEFINITELY the way to go! Environmentally friendly, cheap, fast and effective. Does not require scrubbing or elbow grease! I make a bath with a ratio of one cup of CAP to one gallon of water and it the rust will literally just wipe away!
If it's just very light surface rust, I've also had great luck with 0000 steel wool. Good luck!
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#19 2009-11-02 11:12am
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Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
i use Bar Keepers Friend and a blue no-scratch scotch brite pad. Did the trick on several of my bikes.
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#20 2009-11-02 12:25pm
Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
shifty72 wrote:
moshnmore wrote:
blindfaith420 wrote:
Run it over with your truck
+1, but I use 0000 steel wool with mothers polish or brass wool, not crazy about vinegar because whats that doing to the inside of your frame?
its removing the rust from the inside just like the outside.
i hope you dont think that if the outside of the frame is rusted, the inside is not ???
oxide and cap are impossible to get around here. ive long given up on getting that stuff.
its mucho simpler for me to just run down to the local store and spend
4 bucks on a few gallons of vinegar. its also reusable and you can 're-up' its
potency by adding some baking soda to the mix.
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#21 2009-11-02 12:30pm
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Post a pic of the frame then we can give you a direction. Sometimes there is no need to dip them at all.
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#22 2009-11-02 2:29pm
Re: HELP...surface rust...!!!!!!!!!!!
I have some frames and parts that only have a little rust in the cracks and corners.is there something i can get to use,i dont want to give anything a bath because of the stickers are mint and hard to find.what about that never dull? i dont care about having to use some elbow greese,but im not trying to scrub for days.i have just a little bit of surface rust i need to get off and then polish the chrome.what is the best way to remove rust?and then,what is the best way and the best stuff to use to polish the chrome?
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#23 2009-11-03 2:32pm
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you can get CLR at Wally World 
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