Cleaning up a #605
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I was cleaning a Bedrock #605 and needed to remove rust from the base. As you can see, it is in nice shape but covered in light brown rust.


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Everything but the sole fit in the kitty litter container full of Evaporust. Oh my! What to do? Why, go to HD of course.

I bought some PVC pipe.


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The #605 fit perfectly inside the 3" pipe.


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I watch home shows a lot and it seems that even idiots can dope pipe. So I gave it a try. Lotsa squeeze out on the first try but I got better. At least I got the thing together soundly.

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It is also nice to have a patternmakers vise.

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The bed cleaned up well.

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And fluffy shavings were the final result.

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Now I can work on the wood and make it look nice.
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#12
Brilliant.
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#13
I have thought about that for soaking wood before bending. Did you put the cap on so you could tilt it?
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#14
Why three foot of pipe when eighteen inches would have done the same? Heck, the longest plane out there is twenty four inches, (No. 8) so I can only infer that the extra length is for some sort of other metal you need to dunk.
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#15
I glued a coupler and a cleanout plug on the end so I could store the Evaporust in the pipe. I figured that the cleanout would be easier to deal with than an endcap. The endcaps fit pretty tightly without glue. As for the length of pipe, that was decided in a very scientific fashion. It was what they had. Surely a tad too large for me but better than the 10 ft piece. I left it big because I am lazy.
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#16
I recently fell in love with an idea I saw "Hand Tool Rescue" guy on youtube... he keeps a 5 gallon bucket of evaporust, and a dipping basket... he opens the lid and dips whatever he wants in there.  Looks like a sweet setup...

Also garnered him an Evaporust Sponsorship...

But this would be super effective as well for the #5's and up that don't efficiently fit otherwise.
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#17
The Shopsmith forum dudes also have a few who have cleaned their long salvaged "way tubes" of rust this way.    Others of them put the tubes into sufficient chucking and supports to spin-sand them on the lathe.

Good clean fun!

Chris
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#18
I've resolved never to buy any project planes.  Famous last words, I know. I'll keep this in mind
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#19
Call me an outlier, but I've never felt the need to use any chemical media for cleaning up a plane; perhaps because I don't buy any true rustbuckets.
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(06-02-2017, 03:18 PM)Admiral Wrote: Call me an outlier, but I've never felt the need to use any chemical media for cleaning up a plane; perhaps because I don't buy any true rustbuckets.

Correct. The finesse is on the buy side. You are a wise man who saves himself lots of time and trouble. I am a cheapskate bottom feeder and live on basket cases. The pitiful things just call out to me. I just melt.
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