Re: (ET) E15 looks less like a rolling junk pile, rust remediation?

[Charlie <medievalist gmail com>]

Google "electronic rust removal with washing soda".

There was one guy who did it on a large trailer frame, he made a tub
out of boards and a tarp and immersed the whole thing at once.

--Charlie

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:06 PM, CZ <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:
> So this poor little E15 which was buried in leaves and debris for decades
> before being rescued is looking a tad bit more like a tractor.
>
> Today I put on the fender for the passenger side to see how it looks and 
> to
> stabilize the passenger side footrest. These were old fenders bought at
> salvage. And darn, that side of the tractor now looks kind of like, well
> more like a tractor...
>
> The driver's side (with the brake) is a bit more complex. This was the 
> side
> buried in wet leaves, and the side that badly rotted. The frame has been
> rebuilt with angle iron, but that foot rest is completely gone where it
> would have connected to the fender. No biggie, I have a new foot rest cut
> from another tractor, so I will cut this one off and bolt/weld the new 
> one
> in place, then put on that side.
>
> However this makes the thing look more like it wants love. So the big
> question is how do I get all the rust off the frame? Oddly enough I could
> take it pretty much apart quickly (remove the transmission, motor, lift,
> battery box, front panels, and front wheels and you will pretty much have
> just the steering box on the frame and the wires) but then what? Remove 
> the
> wires and everything? Or should I just knock the paint/rust off it and 
> POR15
> the whole darn thing?
>
> Or just let nature finish the job someday? This weekend I have a new 
> shift
> knob coming, I'll see if I can get it back into the high gears, then will
> take off the resistors and hook the lift to 36 volts. At which time it 
> could
> become a full lawn mowing capable tractor, freeing the E20 to do the 
> heavy
> stuff (and go into the shed)....
>
> Chris
>
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