McBrownie
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Thanks for the compliment
You weren't really intending the waxy graphite coating to be the final finish for gym equipment. But it does sound like a good "temporary-long term" coating to keep the rust away during storage in your difficult conditions. Nobody as yet has mentioned the dreaded old Cosmoline that was used on metal parts to protect them during shipment by sea. And is still used today too.
What is that messy grease found on Harbor Freight machinery?
Here is a little more modern approach to Cosmoline:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009H1AMG/?tag=atomicindus08-20




to finally get it to break loose. The nut was trashed and I cut each side with a small air cut off tool and a tap with a chisel and the nut was off.