Moses Yoder
10-12-2014, 4:25 PM
I don't work in my shop during the winter, it is not worth heating. The latch on my toolbox needs some work, and especially in dry weather (winter) the doors will sometimes swivel open 6 inches or so. My wife had bought me the LV medium shoulder plane a few years back and it sets in one of the pigeon holes in my tool box. This spring I went out and started work on stripping and repainting a dinette and at one point was admiring some of my tools and pulled out the shoulder plane. The top of the plane and about an inch down on the left was covered in rust. I must have used it and put away without oiling and then the doors on my box stood open and it rusted. I was so disgusted I just threw it back in.
At one point this summer I started a thread wondering why rust was bad, and it was clearly explained that rust is indeed bad. Even the Bible talks about not putting your trust in earthly things that are destroyed by rust. I have only been working in my shop on Saturdays usually, and on a lot of Saturdays we have other stuff going, so I have spent all summer stripping a table. I put the primer coat on today and will be painting it this week. It had 6 coats of paint on it. After my painting was done today I cleaned up a plane to sell and then thought while I was cleaning I might as well work on that shoulder plane. I pulled it out and sprayed it down with Simple Green and started scrubbing with a maroon scrub pad. Surprisingly, the rust came right off easily. After ten minutes it looks almost like new again. I took it apart and carefully oiled it with camellia oil and set it back in the box for the winter.
I feel better now.
At one point this summer I started a thread wondering why rust was bad, and it was clearly explained that rust is indeed bad. Even the Bible talks about not putting your trust in earthly things that are destroyed by rust. I have only been working in my shop on Saturdays usually, and on a lot of Saturdays we have other stuff going, so I have spent all summer stripping a table. I put the primer coat on today and will be painting it this week. It had 6 coats of paint on it. After my painting was done today I cleaned up a plane to sell and then thought while I was cleaning I might as well work on that shoulder plane. I pulled it out and sprayed it down with Simple Green and started scrubbing with a maroon scrub pad. Surprisingly, the rust came right off easily. After ten minutes it looks almost like new again. I took it apart and carefully oiled it with camellia oil and set it back in the box for the winter.
I feel better now.