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Lime juice for rust

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the tinker

Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Fellow caber "Chi-town" has had fantastic results using lime juice to take rust off badly corroded handlebars and other plated. parts. I bought this chain ring for the green Ranger I am putting together and was about to use some steel wool on it to shine it up. Every time you use steel wool , even the fine stuff, it takes some precious chrome with it. So I took this rusty ring and carefully wrapped it in plastic wrap, that enabled me to use as little juice as possible, as I only had a partial bottle. I placed it in a shallow plate and let it sit for three days. The back side of the ring had a thin layer of greasy dirt on part of it and the juice would not cut through that.
All I did after the soak was to wash off with a paper towel and lightly wax. Turned out nice!
Before:
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After.:)
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It will go on this bike:
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