Help...please.....with rust on my new GB?

Ospho.

 

Maybe a miracle cloth. That's always served me well for rust removal, but I've never tried it on a forged finish, so I can't guarantee for sure that it won't lighten the finish... I don't think it will though. I've never had it change the original color of any of my blades.

Zube

 

Are you sure it is rust? I know my Wetterlings came with a reddish compound that was smeared onto the head as a polishing buffer. Perhaps you have something similar on your GBA, giving it a red hue? If you only used it once, and kept it reasonably dry, I tend to doubt that you have rust on it already.

To knock off rust, you can use a wire brush or sand paper. Keep in mind, many things that will remove rust may also take off the forge finish of the axe. Make sure to keep that thing oiled!

 

Vasoline works too....leaves the head lubricated too...maybe additional chopping performance?

 

I think I would try a Ritalin first

 

:thumbup:
Stan

 

Yeah Dave chill out bro it can't be that bad. Just go beat the hell out of it and that rust will come right off.

 

Now that's funny...

 

Pics?

 

seriously, if you go stick it in some dirt where you know there is no rocks,
I took an old axe of mine, gets rust on it all the time, I dig out roots with it, the tip of that bad boy shines after every cleaning.

And or some soft wood where it will get deep.
btw I prefer adderol.

 

To keep tools from rusting you take a 5 gallon bucket about half full of clean sharp or mason's sand. It is rinsed and free of sediment. In the sand pour then stir in a quart of mineral oil and store your axe in there or use it to rub it clean and oil it all at one time then wipe off it to store. You should be able to buy the sand in bags where they sell mortar and ready mix concrete, don't use sand from the ocean side, the salt will mess it up.

 

I use flitz on my GB whenever I notice tiny specks of rust.

 

can you post a photo? I mess with such things, but what I do depends on how big & how bad.