Looking great! Amazing how well that works. I'm getting very good results with scrubbing the bits and changing the vinegar every 12 hr. After the worst is off it is 12 hours in a Dawn/Bar Keepers Friend soak. Off to the tumbler and as new. Thanks for the pics and updates.Creighton
Brilliant! Never would've thought to use vinegar. I'm going to try it on a 70s Pearl kit I'm trying to restore... Thanks for the tip and illustration!
Looking great! Amazing how well that works. I'm getting very good results with scrubbing the bits and changing the vinegar every 12 hr. After the worst is off it is 12 hours in a Dawn/Bar Keepers Friend soak. Off to the tumbler and as new. Thanks for the pics and updates.Creighton
Thank you for following this project and your feedback. Cheers.
Brilliant! Never would've thought to use vinegar. I'm going to try it on a 70s Pearl kit I'm trying to restore... Thanks for the tip and illustration!
Some people use diet coke. The vinegar works well and is cheaper. Mine has 6% acidity.
Tip 1: when you take the parts from vinegar put some soda in them. This will neutralize the pH and stop de acid effect.
Tip 2: after wash the parts with water make sure you dry them well and quickly. If you let the parts wet they will get an yellow/gold layer (specialy in areas where the chrome is damaged). This is rust appearing due to the iron/steel exposure to water/oxygen.
Tip 3: After drying, apply lubrificant to prevent from rusting.
Good luck
Today I took the parts from vinegar. Instead of wash them with water, I used baking soda to dry them. The soda absorbs the vinegar and helps stopping the acid effect. Check the results below.
Lug nuts and washers.
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Anyway, the washers were realy corroded and some are missing. I plan to put new ones, maybe nylon. What do you think is the best?
You can see some lug nuts are OK and some are very corroded. The vinegar took off the rust from these spots.
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Drying the tension rods with baking soda
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Final result. Maybe I will polish them with the product I used for lugs. That helps protecting the chrome too
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Now a Before vs After!
Before
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After
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Wow- that is friutin amazing!
Today I removed the black paint from 16" floor tom.
Check it out
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Some old damages that were covered by paint
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All toms
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You are doing a real nice job of those.. Re the washers, I am also cleaning up some Tama T's & claws... Same thing with washers.. some missing and others not cleaning up too well. I bought some Stainless Steel washers from an engineers supplier. I think it was only 7 bucks per 100.
Cheers
John
You are doing a real nice job of those.. Re the washers, I am also cleaning up some Tama T's & claws... Same thing with washers.. some missing and others not cleaning up too well. I bought some Stainless Steel washers from an engineers supplier. I think it was only 7 bucks per 100.CheersJohn
Hi longjohn. I'm thinking replace the steel washers by stainless steel washers. I bought some for other projects (not drums), they are cheap. Just wanted to know others opinion because some people prefer nylon washers. Thanks for following this project and for your time. Cheers
