Curt Harms
07-10-2022, 5:22 PM
One morning a few days ago we came down stairs into the kitchen to be greeted by water on the floor. Good Morning!:eek: A several years old garbage disposal that had been giving us grief about not wanting to start had decided on a new trick and leaked. We got the water cleaned up and I went down to the basement to retrieve a new disposal we had bought to replace this one. Water on the basement floor, water had run to the back of the cabinet where the disposal is and down the holes to the basement. I got that cleaned up as best I could and turned the dehumidifier down. It dried up in a couple days but the table saw top was rusty. The top never got any water on it that I could see but it was about 3' from where the water ran down the basement wall. I sprayed some WD40 on it and first wiped with paper towels then more WD40 and scotch brite type pads. I got it not perfect but I thought I had stopped the rust. I was wrong. I didn't wax the top, figuring the WD 40 would take care of it. This saw has been in its current location for 25+ years and never had a speck of rust on it, neither did other cast iron tops nearby.
I go downstairs today and find this:
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I have no idea why, there hasn't been any evidence of a leak since the initial episode. Same routine, WD 40 and paper towels then more WD40 and scotch brite. This time I tried scotch brite under a sanding disk on a random orbit sander. That worked really well for a few seconds until the pad spun out from under the sanding disk. I found the right kind of hook & loop backed scotch brite like material so that's in my Amazon shopping cart. I got to this but it's still not perfect:
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This time I also applied a thick coat of Johnson's paste wax. I think if I get the disks for the ROS I can get it pretty close to new. If the paste wax doesn't do it I'll go with one of the materials like Boeshield or something like that.
I go downstairs today and find this:
482561482562
I have no idea why, there hasn't been any evidence of a leak since the initial episode. Same routine, WD 40 and paper towels then more WD40 and scotch brite. This time I tried scotch brite under a sanding disk on a random orbit sander. That worked really well for a few seconds until the pad spun out from under the sanding disk. I found the right kind of hook & loop backed scotch brite like material so that's in my Amazon shopping cart. I got to this but it's still not perfect:
482563482564
This time I also applied a thick coat of Johnson's paste wax. I think if I get the disks for the ROS I can get it pretty close to new. If the paste wax doesn't do it I'll go with one of the materials like Boeshield or something like that.