Home made rust prevention

[Bigsyke]

Heres something cool I found; Waxoyl is used alot in the UK to prevent rust, adn have heard nothing but good things about it. Make sure you clean the rust before hand

Here is a recipe for home made "Waxoyl". It's an old fashioned rust treatment / undercoating:

2 1/2 quarts turpentine
12 oz. beeswax / candle wax
1 quart light machine oil

With a cheese shredder, cut the wax into the turpentine, stir until the wax has dissolved, (takes a long time; you can use very low heat (a warm room) to aid but be careful) and thin with the machine oil to a brushable / sprayable consistency. Apply liberally. You can use a hand spray bottle to get into closed-off sections if you have a small access hole.


Please be sensible when you make this stuff; don't go breathing the fumes or applying heat and burning down your house. If you have any doubts about it, err on the side of caution and just buy a commercially available product.


It's pretty simple, really. Take a pound or so of parafin wax and grind
it up with a cheese grater. Soak it in a half gallon of mineral spirits
until all of the wax is dissolved. This might require allowing it to
sit in a closed container for a couple of weeks. Stirring will cause
most of the wax to dissolve, but soaking should take care of the rest.
Generally try to dissolve as much wax as the mineral spirits will hold.

After that, dump in a couple of pints of mineral oil ( less of a smell )
or non-detergent motor oil.

If the mixture is thick, thin it further with more mineral spirits until
it is of a sprayable consistency.

Buy one of those cheap engine sprayers at the local auto or tool store
that carrys air tools. It is a metal wand with an air fitting, a spray
button and a rubber tube to dip in whatever you are spraying. Rent or
borrow an air compressor.

Safely elevate your car so that you can get at the underside. Spray the
solution onto, and into every crevice, crack, hole, and surface you can
get to. Then let the excess drip off. The beauty of it is that the stuff
will soak into any rust spots. The rust seems to hold it like a sponge.
It will also bleed into the smallest cracks and folds of the body and
protect there, too.

All you need to do is repeat this every year, and rusting should be
greatly reduced.

[slidewaysmn]

Good info...but what if you wanna undercoat after doing this? parafin wax...with undercoat on top of it...hmmmm

[Bigsyke]

undercoat 1st with a non pourus rubberized spray. This is more a sealant, that you DONT want to use in your rockers, but you can anywhere else.