naval jelly

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/2/2006 at 10:55 PM Jay West wrote:

>Odd, for many years I used Naval Jelly to clean rust off cans in my beer
>can collection. I never once saw it take any paint off, and I used it on
some 
>pretty fragile old cans. It worked wonderfully without messing up the
>paint.

I'm sure it did.   But Naval Jelly is a very old product and not very safe.
 There are better, safer, preparations.  

I've got a friend who runs an antique auto restoration business.  He says
that he uses the Eastwood products:

http://www.offroaders.com/shop/rust.htm

Maybe there's something there that might do the job for you.

FWIW,
Chuck