70° today and no shop time!

middle.road said:
there was no way I was going to open up the shop and have everything start 'sweating'.
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Actually, I just got onto H-M to post a question about that very subject. We hit 70 a couple of days ago, and it rained all day (3 1/2"). Went out to the shop the next morning, and about half the stationary tools in my shop had a coat of flash rust on them. Even the concrete floor looked damp from the sweating. My shop is a stand-alone building, propane heated only when I'm out there.

I used some VF 3M pads and WD40 , and everything cleaned up nicely, but I'm curious. Anyone care to share their preferred methods for dealing with flash rust? Product names/etc? Usually, I keep my equipment and metal workbenches cleaned and oiled with products like Aerokroil or PB Blaster. Are there better products to use? If I need to do a quick clean-up of trash or grinding dust while I'm working on a project, I'll use WD40, but I prefer the other products when between projects.

Any wise counsel?

Regards,
Terry
 
tjb said:
Actually, I just got onto H-M to post a question about that very subject. We hit 70 a couple of days ago, and it rained all day (3 1/2"). Went out to the shop the next morning, and about half the stationary tools in my shop had a coat of flash rust on them. Even the concrete floor looked damp from the sweating. My shop is a stand-alone building, propane heated only when I'm out there.

I used some VF 3M pads and WD40 , and everything cleaned up nicely, but I'm curious. Anyone care to share their preferred methods for dealing with flash rust? Product names/etc? Usually, I keep my equipment and metal workbenches cleaned and oiled with products like Aerokroil or PB Blaster. Are there better products to use? If I need to do a quick clean-up of trash or grinding dust while I'm working on a project, I'll use WD40, but I prefer the other products when between projects.

Any wise counsel?

Regards,
Terry
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Here's a good current post in regards to the subject. I'm getting ready to try this.
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/lanolin-and-as-rust-preventer.70896/

some lubes like PB and WD40 actually attract and trap moisture - or something like that. One area on the lathe that I had WD40 puddled rusted around the edges a while back.
I've used furniture paste wax for the most part in this shop and out in the trailer for the last (6) years with decent results - _IF_ I remember to recoat...
I've also taken to tossing blankets over my machinery when the temp or humidity goes wild.
 
WD40 is a water displacer, but it also is acidic and can cause rust. Lots of folks use it, but for preventing rust
there are better choices. When my son worked at the machine shop, his boss wouldn't allow it near the machines.
 
Northern Arizona, 7000 ft. altitude. Not the Arizona of the movies. 6" of snow Friday, another 3 on Sunday. High today about 40, low last night 3, yes 3 degrees F. Average this time of year is mid 40's for the high, mid teens for the low. Every year, there is a stretch of a few days that the high does not go above freezing. Humidity is almost always very low. No worries about rust, thankfully. The shop is insulated and sheetrocked. The stove is one of those 55 gallon drums turned to woodstove. It works very well. You get your heat very quickly, not having to warm up 400 lbs of steel. It does not hold the heat well, tho, so it will go thru the wood pretty quick. Drywall and 3 1/2 inches of insulation makes a tremendous difference:big grin:
 
westerner said:
Northern Arizona, 7000 ft. altitude. Not the Arizona of the movies. 6" of snow Friday, another 3 on Sunday. High today about 40, low last night 3, yes 3 degrees F. Average this time of year is mid 40's for the high, mid teens for the low. Every year, there is a stretch of a few days that the high does not go above freezing. Humidity is almost always very low.
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Jeez, my cojones retracted up into my abdomen just reading this!
 
Well its 24F real feel was 8F this morning. We are at 6808ft alt. 7900ft a few miles away.We got about 3” of snow the last few days. Thing is our due point is -1F so things stay dry around here for the most part. During summer the humidity is usually in teens, seen it has low as 4% @ 90 F. Things just don’t rust.
I like it.
CH
 
So here's Murphy on your front stoop.
Last night Honey was coming (late) in here _beloved_ Cadillac and the 'Attention Getting Beast' started tossing a warning about "low oil pressure turn it off now".
It was intermittent and I made the executive decision and told her to just drive it home. (fingers crossed)
Anyway it was 41° tops today and I replaced sending unit, which on a Seville with 174K, is not a cakewalk on your back, in the driveway and that bloody concrete is cold.
It was 58° yesterday.
What a difference 17° makes... I'm too aged for this stuff, or perhaps I just need a heated shop area with room enough for a vehicle, Oh Honey....
 
tjb said:
Dan,

How did you get that little 'degree' symbol in there?

P.S.: Sorry about your Cadillac.
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Oh, to get the 'degree' symbol gang, it's simple.
This is for a Window$ based PC and a full keyboard, I'm not sure how to do it on a laptop. A program called CharMap will also work using Copy and Paste, but for me that's too time consuming.
Hold down the <ALT> key, and while it is still depressed type out the following keys on the 10-Key Pad on the right hand side of your keyboard.
2,4,8 or 0,1,7,6.
Here's a chart showing a bunch of available special characters:
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║ https://usefulshortcuts.com/downloads/ALT-Codes.pdf ║
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