Hi Lenny, I have some rust remover I bought from thesawshop.com last winter, it is a mild acid so needs to be used with a little caution. You mist the surface then wipe it away fairly rapidly, it sort of fogs the surface but if left too long it also produces corrosion.
Light oil and fine wet/dry sand paper or pumice work too. I like to use a little of that car polish with rubbing compound in it to get a real shiny surface and when all wiped down I apply a layer of good old furniture wax and when dry buff it off for a smooth and slippery surface. I don't probably wax things as much as I should but you will find that it protects the surface from those drips. Often I get a little glue around on the saw table as I use it sometimes for working off of and that too will cause rust spots but with wax it just jumps off when hit and the wax is way more easily renewed than removing rust. By the way, you can get foam insulator split tubes to go over those pipes and keep air from contacting them and condensing moisture to fall on your equipment. A strip of tape at intervals will close up the split well enough so even that bit doesn't come into contact with the air. Oh yes, be careful of those rust removers around carbide tipped blades. Some of the solder used to sweat the carbide to the steel may be adversely effected by either acid or strong alkaline products like oven cleaner. You don't want a tooth coming off a blade at those speeds. Apparently it can happen depending on the sort of solder. Cleaning blades, another job I don't do often enough. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: Handyman-Blind Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 5:12 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] surface rust Hi All, My wife just noticed some light surface rust spots on my table saw. There is an overhead cold water pipe. For a few weeks I didn't have the saw covered and condensation caused the drops to fall on the saw. I wonder what is the best way to remove. She noticed it when I was getting ready to apply a coat of Slipit I thought about using toothpaste and a dremmal tool. The toothpaste would act like a very fine rubbing compound. I do have sighted help that can remove the spots as opposed to me using steel wool over the entire top.. Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
