Removing Rust with White Vinegar

[andy]

Hey ya'll

I reckon you know this trick already but I thought I'd share anyway. If you have any stainless steel objects that are rusted you can soak them in white vinegar to remove the rust. I tried it on two old knives I bought in China and it worked like a charm. If you scrub it'll go faster but I just let them sit a few days.

Safe,

Andy

[Dave]

I recently had good luck scrubbing rust stains off my stainless steel sink by rubbing wet baking soda into it with a piece of aluminum foil. Took it off in a hurry. No idea if it was purely mechanical/abrasive or if there may have been more to it but it worked great.

[Dan Shookowsky]

November 2011 Wired had a list of how to neutralize common stains with science (and MUPPETS!!!)

Red Wine - Use club soda or baking soda.  The basic solution attracts the tannic acid

dirt or rust - Use lemon or vinegar.  Same idea as above, just reversed due to the alkaline nature of the rust/dirt.

ink - Remove with hair spray or rubbing alcohol.  Rubbing alcohol is a surfactant, containing a hydrophilic side and another side that favors organic molecules.  This binds the water and ink and carries them away together.

Blood - Salt water.  Salt dissolves the iron in hemoglobin.  

 

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Dave <dgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recently had good luck scrubbing rust stains off my stainless steel sink by rubbing wet baking soda into it with a piece of aluminum foil. Took it off in a hurry. No idea if it was purely mechanical/abrasive or if there may have been more to it but it worked great.

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[PJ Santoro]

Pro tip: vinegar is excellent at removing cat urine odors

sent by telephone

[Adam Kaufman]

Dear PJ,

How to remove cats? Specifically girlfriend's cats.

Yours,

Adam

[Jordan Miller]

emergency dog transplant. but there's only a 7% chance of success.

jordan

[PJ Santoro]

Haven't figured that part out yet, but Jordan's method may work.

sent by telephone

[Randy]

Whould the technical term be 'addadogtome"?  (Think transgender humor)

From: Jordan Miller <jrd...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Hive 76 Discussion] Removing Rust with White Vinegar

emergency dog transplant. but there's only a 7% chance of success.

jordan

On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Adam Kaufman <unmot...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear PJ,

How to remove cats? Specifically girlfriend's cats.

Yours,

Adam

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:10 PM, PJ Santoro <pain...@gmail.com> wrote:

Pro tip: vinegar is excellent at removing cat urine odors

sent by telephone

On Aug 23, 2012 7:07 PM, "Dan Shookowsky" <dshoo...@gmail.com> wrote:

November 2011 Wired had a list of how to neutralize common stains with science (and MUPPETS!!!)

Red Wine - Use club soda or baking soda.  The basic solution attracts the tannic acid

dirt or rust - Use lemon or vinegar.  Same idea as above, just reversed due to the alkaline nature of the rust/dirt.

ink - Remove with hair spray or rubbing alcohol.  Rubbing alcohol is a surfactant, containing a hydrophilic side and another side that favors organic molecules.  This binds the water and ink and carries them away together.

Blood - Salt water.  Salt dissolves the iron in hemoglobin.  

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Dave <dgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recently had good luck scrubbing rust stains off my stainless steel sink by rubbing wet baking soda into it with a piece of aluminum foil. Took it off in a hurry. No idea if it was purely mechanical/abrasive or if there may have been more to it but it worked great.

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[Jordan Miller]

ummmm....

jordan

[99]

2 more.

Beer bottle labels: soak in water with a little baking soda. I think
it's the alkalinity that eats at the adhesive much better than plain
water. No standing at the sink scrubbing off labels with the back of a
knife.

Sweat stains: salicylic acid, aka crushed aspirin or wart remover.

On 08/23/2012 10:29 PM, PJ Santoro wrote:
> Haven't figured that part out yet, but Jordan's method may work.
>
> sent by telephone
>
> On Aug 23, 2012 7:28 PM, "Jordan Miller" <jrd...@gmail.com

> <mailto:jrd...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> emergency dog transplant. but there's only a 7% chance of success.
>
> jordan
>
>
>
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Adam Kaufman <unmot...@gmail.com

> <mailto:unmot...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Dear PJ,
>>
>> How to remove cats? Specifically girlfriend's cats.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Adam
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:10 PM, PJ Santoro <pain...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:pain...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Pro tip: vinegar is excellent at removing cat urine odors
>>
>> sent by telephone
>>
>> On Aug 23, 2012 7:07 PM, "Dan Shookowsky"

[Jordan Miller]

nice. goo-gone works amazing at all label removal.

jordan

[Dan Shookowsky]

If you brew your own and would like to APPLY a label, a light brush of regular old milk does the trick.  They come off really easily when wet though, so this is best suited for beer in a refrigerator not a cooler.

[andy]

Any tips on getting rid of mold? There's a serious power struggle going on in my shower.

[Sean McBeth]

clean it more often than once a year

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[Dan Shookowsky]

I used to keep diluted bleach in a spray bottle and spray down the walls after a shower.  You probably want to do a deep clean followed by this to maintain it.

[Chris Thompson]

Bleach spray. 

via mobile. 

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[andy]

Cool, I'll give it a whack. 

[ComSec]

Also take a look a ventilation options. Humidity can wreak havoc on insufficiently ventilate spaces.

[99]

Also white vinegar, and will help with scum and sediment.

On 08/30/2012 11:22 AM, andy wrote:
> Cool, I'll give it a whack.
>
> On Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:10:52 AM UTC-4, eagleapex wrote:
>
> Bleach spray.
>
>
>
> via mobile.
>
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:07 AM, andy <nosek...@gmail.com

> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Any tips on getting rid of mold? There's a serious power struggle
>> going on in my shower.
>>
>> On Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:41:12 PM UTC-4, andy wrote:
>>
>> Hey ya'll
>>
>> I reckon you know this trick already but I thought I'd share
>> anyway. If you have any stainless steel objects that are
>> rusted you can soak them in white vinegar to remove the rust.
>> I tried it on two old knives I bought in China and it worked
>> like a charm. If you scrub it'll go faster but I just let them
>> sit a few days.
>>
>> Safe,
>>
>> Andy
>>
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[andy]

That's exactly the problem. The shower was poorly designed, with a hood that makes it dark and moist almost all the time. The tile is rough with lots of niches to exploit.