[Jewelry making - Article 00282] - [Orchid] Preventing Rust

[Evan Soldinger/Linda Kaye-Moses]

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    I had heard a neat trick to keep steel tools from rusting (Can't
    remember where I heard about this, but thank you whoever told me). I
    haven't used it yet, because I haven't had a problem with rust
    (yet!), but here goes: 

    Make up a nice batch of pickle (Sparex is fine). Add some scrap
    pieces of copper to the pickle, a lot of copper, please. Throw in
    your steel tools (dapping punches, chasing tools, stamps, hammer
    heads, etc. ) Your steel will be copper-plated, lightly. Copper does
    not RUST! Remove the tools and neutralize the pickle and dry
    thoroughly. You now have tools that will not oxidize/rust, at least
    as long as the plating lasts. When it wears down, do it again. It
    sounds like this would be a lot easier than having to remove all
    that nasty RUST! 

La Linda

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