Buy It And Try It: Evaporust

Evaporust claims to be the easy metal restorer, so let's see if the
stuff in the jug works.

At DC Metals in North Highlands -- the place with the bull's-eye on
the roof -- junk can turn into money. They pay for scrap metal, so
they deal with lots of it.

And where there's metal, rust often isn't far behind.

"It's a dirty business, it's a rusty business," says manager Matthew Braswell.

He normally gets the rust off with lots of elbow grease. I gave him my
Evaporust, which claims to be a super-safe rust remover.

One thing he wants to know is what's in this product, but it doesn't
say. He finds some rusty objects around to try it out on. A slightly
rusted ruler, a moderately rusted tool, and some heavily rusted blocks
of metal.

The directions say to drop it into the solution for a half-hour for
light rust, overnight for the heavier stuff. So a half hour later, we
check out the lightly rusted ruler.

After rinsing it off, it's still… well, lightly rusted.

"I was hoping we'd be able to read the scale off the ruler, but you
can see we can't.

Let's check out the tool… also rusty.

It's supposed to take overnight on the heavily rusted objects, so we
let it sit overnight. The next day, the rust is gone on the ruler, and
also the tool. And the really rusty bar…

"This piece is the best, and it had the heavy rust on it."

He wishes it worked faster, but in the end, "Given time, it works, yeah."

I paid $14.95 plus shipping and handling, and I bought it online.