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I haven't been following the thread, and even attempted to find it's origin in the archives with no success (ok I didn't try very hard). But for what it's worth, a good way of removing rust is with a scotch brite and/or fine steel wool and light oil (wd-40 or Liquid Wrench say). I'm not sure the grocery store variety of SBs will work, but maybe it would (perhaps all of them have the little flecks of metal imbedded in it's fibers). But start out with the steel wool. The finest grade is #0000 and can be bought from craft stores, often even the big ones. For this application (?) it should be a good as any method, but careful on machine tools cuz it WILL remove tiny amounts of metal. I went to work on an area of an old Pratt & Whitney lathe with visual hand-scraping marks (an indication of a VERY fine dimensional finish)...and they went away sniff. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com