naval jelly

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/2/2006 at 10:15 PM Jay West wrote:

>I've always had incredibly good success using naval jelly on spot rust. I 
>haven't used it in quite a few years though. Anyone else use this a lot
>and 
>have a good (cheap) source lined up that they'd care to share the contact 
>info for? Maybe if enough folks are interested we could split a case or 
>something.

I'm familiar with the stuff but would never really consider using it on
electronics gear--it's basically phosphoric and sulfuric acids with some
detergent and silica as a polishing agent.  The "jelly" is nothing more
than Xanthan gum (also used to thicken salad dressing).  

Surely, there must be safer ways to clear away rust!

Cheers,
Chuck