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RE: removing rust from an engine

To: kengano@advant.com (Gano, Ken), "'Douglas Shook'" <shook@usc.edu>,
Subject: RE: removing rust from an engine
From: bob bownes <rbownes@neworks.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:06:18 -0500

I'd second the hot tank suggestion. cart the block down to the local
machine shop, hand it over, pick it up the next day, pay the nice man $15
or so, and go home. Low effort, low cost, low household environmental impact.

iii


At 11:28 PM 2/10/99 -0600, Gano, Ken wrote:
>
>Most automotive machine shops can "hot tank" a block.  It's basically a wash
>solution of hot caustic stuff.  The "green" alternative is hot water,
>pressure and time.  I've seen some equipment recently that steam cleans and
>rinses block over multiple hours.  The one friend who has such a set up
>swears by it.



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