Restoring nuts and bolts

[theman440]

What is everybody doing to restore their factory nuts and bolts? Besides sending them out to cad plate or other types of plating Are they Parkerized originally ? I' m looking for a method I could cheaply & safely do at home, thanks in advance!

 

[themechanic]

Look at @dadsbee and @moparnation74 build threads.

Lots of folks use Mineral Sourits for degreasing, a wire wheel on a bench grinder, a tumbler and abrasive media and different kinds of finishes depending on the fastener. Most nuts and bolts are just steel with iron oxide for rust protection.

Boeshield is a great rust protection.

 

[davek]

For the body nuts and bolts My plan is clean and paint them,if need run a die or tap threw them. .

 

[threewood]

Evaporust will make plain fasteners look like new. It does not touch paint, though. Anything that gets painted goes in the sandblast cabinet.

 

[cr8crshr]

Sandblast, wire wheel, steel brush, and usually by hand. I have never been too concerned with restoring them to factory-new appearance, as when I was working on my cars, I just wanted them to clean up nicely and then thread chase the nuts and bolts to clean up the threads. cr8crshr/Bill

 

[dadsbee]

and an old used container of dirty Evaporust will blacken bolts for you... then RPM or Boeshield T9 them.

 

[T2R9]

Dirty Evaporust is great to blacken parts.

 

[Tony Tee]

I clean and tin/zinc plate with eastwoods plating kit. to keep the rust away.

 

[Geetex]

What is everybody doing to restore their factory nuts and bolts? Besides sending them out to cad plate or other types of plating Are they Parkerized originally ? I' m looking for a method I could cheaply & safely do at home, thanks in advance!

You can nose around on this site, Caswell, and see if they have any products that tickle your fancy.

Copy Cad & Zinc Plating Kit - 1.5 Gal

 

[icetech]

If you decide to use evaporust, make your own.. it's like 20 gallons for $20 istead of $20 for 1 gallon and lasts WAY longer than the normal stuff... i keep a huge tub of it.. just soaked some rims in it, came out great.

 

[icetech]

Also.. here is a thread with other guys that tried it..

Rust removal, better than evaporust and 10x cheaper..

soo.. so in doing my car which was a michigan car i have dealt with a lot of rust and spent way too much money on evaporust that i finally went online and looked and found this guys video and made his mix and it worked better than evaporust and lasts longer so far. Sadly i'm down to only a few...

www.forbbodiesonly.com

 

[Coelacanth]

Another vote for Evaporust. I have a jar of it on the shelf in the garage and drop all of my rusty fasteners, clips, nuts & bolts in it.

 

[Tony Tee]

Just a side note about evapo-rust . I soaked dead power window switches in it cycling the switches now and again . The switches worked like new again. I rinsed the switches in isopropyl alchol afterwards and blew them dry with compressed air.

 

[devinism]

Just a side note about evapo-rust . I soaked dead power window switches in it cycling the switches now and again . The switches worked like new again. I rinsed the switches in isopropyl alchol afterwards and blew them dry with compressed air.

While they were still in their chrome housings?

 

[DeltaV]

For the body nuts and bolts My plan is clean and paint them,if need run a die or tap threw them. .

Use a thread chaser instead.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Caswell black oxide before and after

 

[dadsbee]

@Islandkent had a good thread on coating hardware using Caswell.

 

[Tony Tee]

While they were still in their chrome housings?

Yes. I submerged the whole switch. No harm. Besides, I had nothing to lose. They didn't work.

 

[Islandkent]

@Islandkent had a good thread on coating hardware using Caswell.

Thanks Wayne! Time to get back at it. Been a year since I touched her. A long year!
Yep Caswell and zinc and nickel plating and RPM Does a lovely job! After glass bead blasting. Well worth the effort. And I mean really; what a great way to spend some time. Becoming one with your blast cabinet. lol
Never tried the Boeshield