Nuts and bolts Restoration

[Richard M.]

Re: Nuts and bolts Restoration

Evaporust at Tractor Supply is $22.00 a gallon.

Richard

[Peter S.]

Re: Nuts and bolts Restoration

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I had assumed that grey phosphate and black phosphate are one in the same. There is no confusion between black phosphate and black oxide, but you mentioned above that you were able to get black oxide to look like black phosphate, in appearance, through some manipulation.

Many of my bolts will not even need a new phosphate layer as they look perfect coming out of the Evapo-Rust solution.

Peter

[Ron G.]

Re: Nuts and bolts Restoration

I am not a 1975 aficinado, but cannot believe that the bolts in the control arm positions were originally natural un plated as that is a sensitive area regarding corrosion and saftey. As far as wire wheeling and launching missles are concerned, yes that it can and does happen. The trade off to that is that the end result is usualy a nice smooth finish providing the piece of hardware you are working with is not pitted. T

[Ron G.]

Re: Nuts and bolts Restoration

I must have hit the "post reply" as I did not mean to post my opinion before I was thru writing it.Now as I was trying say, tumbling is a more secure way of not loosing the hardware, but it can keave a textured finish that was not original to the bolt. Again, I personally like very carefully using the wire wheel. When finished I rinse them in Simple Green to remove any oils that were on the wire wheel itself. Now the bolt is ready to be plated. I have had great results over the past thirty years doing it this way.

[Peter S.]

Re: Nuts and bolts Restoration

Thanks guys, I had an analysis of the bolt done at work today with the result showing zinc plating on it. The bar nut as in Mike's picture came back with no coating on it as he stated, but, the steel is made out of low chromium steel which will help in preventing rust. So I guess I will wire brush and re-plate the bolts and just apply a sealer onthe natual parts.

Hi Daniel,

Did you mean low carbon steel?

Peter