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I recently inherited almost an entire machine shop worth of tools. I am talking hundreds of files, drills taps, dies, 5 full toolboxes and plently more random containers. Most of which range from slightly surface rusted to really rusted. Im in the process of dealing with the rust. I've got a tub of evaporust and a 5 gallon bucket of diluted degreaser. Im trying to move through the parts in batches and be as efficient as possible and I am not sure how to go about protecting the parts when they come out of the evaporust and have the potential to flash rust and or have chemicals sitting in the cracks and crevices. My process so far is to soak about 50 parts at a time in a strainer in degreaser for about an hour, then rinse them in water, then soak them in evaporust for 4-24 hours. once they come out I rinse them again with clean water and here's where the process gets slow. I've been hand drying simple parts and using an air compressor to blow the water out of the intricate parts, then spraying them all down with wd40 to try and make sure all water/evaporust is flushed out. then I take all the wd40ed parts and wipe them/blow them off. That gives me the peace of mind that they won't rust further while they sit and await me coating them in an actual oil or protectant. do yall think it's possible to find a liquid I can just drop the parts into after I rinse with water that they can just soak in and it'll displace water? like maybe a 5-gallon bucket of kerosene or diesel? or more expensive but I can get another gallon of wd40 and maybe soak then in that if something cheaper wont work.
