Cut an onion and rub the onion on the rust until it's gone. If that does not work report back and we will kick it up a notch.

Bottles of Evapo-Rust can be found at car parts stores and I've had pretty good luck with the stuff. Just soak the rusted part(s) overnight.

Aw, come on!

Serious as a heart attack. Try that first, cut and rub like you were sanding with it.

This is some bad rust, I hate to waste a good Vadaila on it!

ok....we'll skip that step...go to the auto parts store and get Eagle one chrome wheel cleaner and eagle one mag wheel cleaner.

Start with the chrome wheel cleaner, the mag is STRONG. Spray on and let it soak for a couple of minutes then scrub with an old tooth brush then rinse and dry well. Then polish with tutle wax chrome polish and rust memover, this is in a small green bottle and you can get it at the auto parts store too.

Okay, I'll give it a try!

I use Blue Magic metal polish cream (its like 6 bucks) from the auto parts store on old rusted hardware and it works fine. It just takes patience LoLoLoLo and one tired polishing arm. On stuff rusted pretty severe usually the 2nd round of polishing will get them looking real nice. just one more method to add to the mix, works wonders for me. Good luck D' Drummer -kev-

Lucky,

I've used CLR (calcium, lime, rust remover) on extremely rusted hardware (nuts, washers, etc) and had some good results. Its not a polish however. Never tried it on bass drum claws either. Perhaps if the other methods don't work you might give that a try as a last resort? Good Luck!

James