Do chrome tools need rust prevention spray?

[RoninB4]

A desiccant can help. For precision instruments in machine shops they're often subjected to wildly varying atmospheres over plant holiday shut-downs, truck bays being open, or just a humid industrial setting. To protect delicate precision instruments a desiccant material is/was often employed to help prevent rust damaging oxidation. I used to buy camphor blocks ($1 apiece) sold as diaper pail deodorizers at the drug store and leave them partially in the cellophane wrapper. If they don't sell them that way any more look for something that smells like camphor, it's unmistakable. The camphor blocks would evaporate over several months but $1 or two once or twice a year was a cheap investment to make. I kinda like the smell of camphor when I've got a head cold in the winter too. Just put it in the toolbox but not contacting metal.

Just checked, 12 blocks (tablets) for $8 on amazon.

 

[bcschief]

Fluid Film is my go-to for tool rust prevention. https://www.autozone.com/greases-an...n-protection-aerosol-spray-11-75oz/253803_0_0

 

[no704]

Place I used to work at had a maintenance guy that “cleaned” evap coolers with muriatic acid. Everything was covered in rust in one day!

 

[no704]

Old timer told me to keep a rag damp with linseed oil in the tool box to prevent rust. Never tried it, sounds like a fire hazard, but I suppose it really should not be much of a problem?

 

[4xdog]

Linseed oil is a "drying oil" that cures as it ages, one of the main reasons it's used in wood finishes. I wouldn't keep a linseed oil dampened rag around to wipe tools.

 

[no704]

Linseed oil is a "drying oil" that cures as it ages, one of the main reasons it's used in wood finishes. I wouldn't keep a linseed oil dampened rag around to wipe tools.

Not to wipe the tools, it out gasses a protective atmosphere.

 

[Moldyjim]

Linseed oil is a "drying oil" that cures as it ages, one of the main reasons it's used in wood finishes. I wouldn't keep a linseed oil dampened rag around to wipe tools.

Agreed, That's a recipe for disaster.

Spontaneous combustion from BLO drying on a rag happens if you aren't careful.

I have a couple of empty paste wax cans I put those kind of rags into between jobs. Sealed up tightly, any oxygen gets used up before any heat gets built up.

 

[Kuma601]

Duct the dryer vent outdoors?

That was a design issue by the way they did this particular floor plan. Most homes in this neighborhood the dryer sits against an outside wall so the dryer to vent is about a 2-4' straight run. This one the hook-up's for the clothes washer and dryer are between an interior door and an A/C-heater unit. The dryer ducting was placed into the floor when the concrete was poured and it emerged outside the house at ground level which is about an 8' run. When it rains that opening fills with water. It also is an open door for long tails to enter and walk into. My neighbors with that floor plan we all do similar and vent inside the garage for that design F-U.

This presents a rust free challenge in winters.

 

[Moldyjim]

That was a design issue by the way they did this particular floor plan. Most homes in this neighborhood the dryer sits against an outside wall so the dryer to vent is about a 2-4' straight run. This one the hook-up's for the clothes washer and dryer are between an interior door and an A/C-heater unit. The dryer ducting was placed into the floor when the concrete was poured and it emerged outside the house at ground level which is about an 8' run. When it rains that opening fills with water. It also is an open door for long tails to enter and walk into. My neighbors with that floor plan we all do similar and vent inside the garage for that design F-U.

This presents a rust free challenge in winters.

Not thinking things through were they?

My first house had the W/D on the second floor.
The dryer quit drying clothes completely. Kept getting worse over about a week.

Everything seemed okay on the dryer end.

Got a ladder out and climbed up to the vent, pulled off the cover and looked inside.

Ended up pulling out a birds nest complete with boiled eggs and a couple of dead chicks. I got a new vent pipe and a better cover for the vent cause the parents kept trying to get back inside.

 

[zendriver]

I use WD-40 it doesn’t work but the tool don’t rust

Shovels axes etc. just wipe with whatever light oil

 

[Kscardsfan]

Fluid Film is my go-to for tool rust prevention. https://www.autozone.com/greases-an...n-protection-aerosol-spray-11-75oz/253803_0_0

Forgot all about fluid film. I love that stuff for my snow blowers and shovels.

 

[dukefx]

The answer is actually quite simple. If it's good quality coating with multiple layers then don't bother with oils, if it's bad then yet again... don't bother because it'll chip away anyway. Once there is damage to the plating either due to abuse or simply chipping off due to bad quality start applying some oil. I have some prying tools (for plastic panels and such) for example where one of them was damaged after using it once. Made in China, so no surprise there, they are terrible at plating, no exceptions, but even that tool had at least a layer of copper underneath. I've seen worse in the past.