Jedi Reali
Sr Member
Welp, I done messed it up.
So a lot of my belongings wound up in my brother's attic several years ago, during a hasty move. I had since removed sensitive items from the attic to a safer place, but some things slipped through the cracks. I thought I'd relocated all of my sabers, but this evening I made a grim discovery. My Russrep parts. Covered in rust. I can't believe I missed this one box, of all boxes.
One steel grenade is sealed to its brass windvane.
A second steel grenade is sealed to a brass windvane on one end, and an aluminum clamp spacer on the other end.
A steel balance pipe has an aluminum cone sealed inside it, and of course the two parts of the balance pipe are sealed together.
The rust is serious.
Two things. I'd like to be able to get the parts apart again, but I also would like to get rid of most of the rust simply because this was not how I intended to weather these pieces. Is there something I can soak these in that will do the trick? I really wanna get them apart again so I can weather each piece separately, and be able to align them how I want.
Additionally, I have another aluminum clamp spacer that was not in the attic, but has acquired some sort of corrosion on it. Should I be concerned about this spreading to my Graflex clamp in the future? How would I clean this?
Really bummed here. Hoping there's a solution to this.
So a lot of my belongings wound up in my brother's attic several years ago, during a hasty move. I had since removed sensitive items from the attic to a safer place, but some things slipped through the cracks. I thought I'd relocated all of my sabers, but this evening I made a grim discovery. My Russrep parts. Covered in rust. I can't believe I missed this one box, of all boxes.
One steel grenade is sealed to its brass windvane.
A second steel grenade is sealed to a brass windvane on one end, and an aluminum clamp spacer on the other end.
A steel balance pipe has an aluminum cone sealed inside it, and of course the two parts of the balance pipe are sealed together.
The rust is serious.
Two things. I'd like to be able to get the parts apart again, but I also would like to get rid of most of the rust simply because this was not how I intended to weather these pieces. Is there something I can soak these in that will do the trick? I really wanna get them apart again so I can weather each piece separately, and be able to align them how I want.
Additionally, I have another aluminum clamp spacer that was not in the attic, but has acquired some sort of corrosion on it. Should I be concerned about this spreading to my Graflex clamp in the future? How would I clean this?
Really bummed here. Hoping there's a solution to this.
