Evapo-Rust ER012 Heavy Duty – 128 oz., Rust Remover for Auto Parts, Hardware, Antiques | Rust Removers and Chemicals

Restoring vehicles is one of my hobbies, so I’ve tried my share of rust removers over the years. Some promise a lot and deliver very little. Evapo-Rust is one of the few products I continue to keep on the shelf because it simply works. It arrived quickly and was packaged well with no leaks or damaged container. I appreciate that it’s a ready-to-use formula, so there’s no mixing or guessing—just pour enough into a container to completely cover the part and let it do the work. The solution is water-based, reusable, and designed to remove rust without harsh acids or damaging unrusted metal. What I especially like is that it reaches places a wire wheel or sandblaster simply can’t. Brackets, hardware, bolts, and smaller automotive parts come out looking dramatically better with very little effort. It’s become a regular part of how I prepare pieces before refinishing or painting. As with any restoration project, the preparation and the finishing steps matter just as much as removing the rust. Once the part is clean and dry, I always follow up with the appropriate coating to keep corrosion from returning. If you’re restoring classic vehicles, maintaining older equipment, or just trying to save original parts instead of replacing them, this is one of those products that’s worth having in the garage. #FoundItOnAmazon #EvapoRust #RustRemoval #AutomotiveRestoration #Jeep #GarageLife #CollectorVehicles #DIY #AmazonFinds #LuxeLife

I've been working on restoring motorcycles in my spare time for a number of years and watched a lot of youtube videos of folks using MetalRescue, electrolysis, vinegar and then, for some reason, I stumbled upon a video of EvapoRust. I'd never heard of it. I thought maybe it was a knockoff of MetalRescue as it was $10 cheaper for a gallon. I thought it probably wouldn't work as well as the videos I've been watching but found $17 a gallon a little easier to part with. Well let me tell you I've been dipping motorcycle parts in there with the rubber still on them, stickers on them, paint on them, chrome on them. This stuff leaves all that alone and takes the rust right off. Places where the paint has been chipped or flaked off and replaced with rust was right down to bare-a@$ metal. Unbelievable. I've used this gallon multiple times and while it's still working I'm thinking it may be time for a fresh batch. I've used this on a corroded-as-all-get-out battery tray, coil bracket, bolts, screws, headlight shell, side covers, even a seat pan! That's a lot for one gallon to handle and it's still going. I want to do a tank so I think the extra gallon will help with coverage. I don't know if they have a 5 gallon bucket but that might be the way to go. Originally this stuff was sort of a light iced-tea color, it has darkened considerably since, I imagine that's the iron content in the water, it's definitely a darker brownish red at this point. I'm pretty careful to let it sit for a while before I pour it back into the original jug and I let all the grit sit at the bottom to get rinsed down the sink. This stuff has a smell to it that is pretty low-key, non toxic... almost like soap. I find the more I use it the less I look forward to that smell though. Small price to pay. Once the stuff has been removed from the solution I run it under my faucet with hot water. I use a brush or my thumb to brush away the dark residue and I'm left with a nice, even, grey metal color that takes a swipe or two with some 00 steel wool to put a little shine on. I hit it with some matte clear coat and install on the bike. Oh, one other thing. I was really worried about flash rusting. It hasn't been a problem yet and some of my pieces I've left for two days after treatment. I find that if I rinse with REALLY hot water it tends to evaporate rather quickly and there's nothing left on the metal to rust. Granted it's winter and the air is very dry. I may have different luck in the summer but right now I'm loving it. This stuff is amazing. It seems to leave the metal with a rough texture (hence the 00 steel wool) but I think that's because of what the rust has done to the original surface. Like I said, one or two swipes and I actually get it to shine. If you don't want the shine, don't steel wool it.

I do alot of old toy train restorations and would spend hours trying to remove rust. Evapo-rust changed everything! Whether it's a small part the size of a dime or the size of a bowling ball, simply soak it and let it sit (I usually do 24 hours, but 2 hours works as well). Rinse it off, dry it and it's good as new. I started out with a gallon jug, and since it's reusable, it lasted about 6 months. I just found out you can get up to a 55 gallon drum and will be ordering soon. Safe to use without gloves, nontoxic and easily disposed of, Evapo-rust changed the game.

Originally I bought a 3.5 gallon bucket of this stuff to de-rust in the inside of my motorcycle tank. The website says to wash any grease/oil and dirt. off of the parts you're going to soak, but after draining the gas from my tank and letting it sit for a day, I forgot to wash the tank out. I filled the tank with Evapo-rust and let it sit for approximately 24 hours and when I checked it it hadn't done anything. I contacted the manufacturer via their website contact form and received a reply that any amount of gasoline would screw up the Ph and cause evapo-rust not to work properly. So that was around $60 down the drain since it apparently ruins the product. It doesn't mention this in the directions I'd read on the website. This time around I soaked it with dish soap 3 times, rinsing it out 3 or 4 times after each soak. I'll update this review once I see how it works this time. **UPDATE** Ok, so I've had my tank soaking for one week and one day and this stuff is doing the job. It's taking awhile, but one of the reasons I decided to go with this stuff was that it only eats the rust and will not affect the metal. I didn't want to have to babysit my tank through the rust removal processes, so being able to forget about it for a couple of days was ideal for me. I think it probably would have worked faster had I drained the product, rinsed the tank, and replaced the product every day. The instructions tell you you may need to rinse your part and resoak to remove a film that might prevent further penetration into the rust. The instructions indicate that heavy rust might need at least an over night soaking, and while I didn't think mine would be considered "heavy" rust, it certainly wasn't light rust. Now that the rust is pretty much gone, there's pretty decent pitting in the metal in there. I wound up buying another gallon locally (total 3 gallons) because I have no way of telling if all the rust is removed aside from what I can see through the filler hole. I would recommend getting enough of this product that will at least mostly fill your tank to minimize how many different positions you have to leave the tank setting. I really want to find something heavily rusted that I can drop into the solution so I can better see the progress. That and it's a bit of a pain draining it out of the tank, rinsing it out thoroughly, and then pouring the product back in. I also filtered the product through a t-shirt each time I drained it out of the tank to remove the little bits of rust that came out. This stuff definitely does a good job and it's safe to use and won't eat anything but the rust. I wasn't concerned about this because I'm getting a dent fixed and getting it repainted, but it doesn't appear to harm the paint at all. I have spilled this stuff a decent amount though this process and aside from making your hands a little sticky, it's easy to work with. If you're in a hurry this might not be the product for you unless your dealing with really light rust, but if you're like me and want something that you can "set and forget" it will work for you. I waited until winter so I wouldn't have to go without riding my bike for the repairs, so this was a perfect solution for me.

This stuff is brilliant for rusty steel, better than white vinegar. I had bolts and bicycle parts that were basically clean, but pretty well rusted. No caked on grease or dirt, a good layer of rust but not caked up thick. I put them in a plastic container of this stuff. It dissolves the rust into the solution, so no wire brushing needed unless the part is covered in gunk. It takes a while. I did the first screw in an ultrasonic cleaner and they were done in an hour. I put the more complicated parts with deep sockets into a container of this and let it soak for a couple of days, they came out beautiful! Depending on the steel it will either come up clean or have a gray/black conversion coating. Great for screws/tools, the conversion coating helps hold oil to prevent future rusting. It won't eat the base metal. Rusty pliers could sit in this for a month, the rust will dissolve but the pliers won't have any pitting except for what the rust did. I wouldn't use it on my antique rifle, because the color might turn, but it's great for general purpose stuff like tools and hardware.

I was a bit skeptical about how well this would work on rusty tools and knives I had inherited. Seriously, this product works perfectly every time. I had an old multi-tool I kept I'm my tacklebox, and Evapo-rust restored it to original condition. Old folding pocket knives acquired over the years that had rusted shut in the Florida humidity are clean and usable the next day. I highly recommend this product.

My first project was to de-rust a part (burner assembly) from an old rusty, abused Coleman lantern. I first used a small wire brush to remove the flaky rust. After soaking for two days, most of the remaining rust had been removed. Another quick application of the wire brush and another overnight soak removed the last of the rust, leaving only shiny metal. The burner assembly was so badly damaged by rust, it was not a candidate for putting back into service, so I left the part soaking for several more days just to see what would happen. Since Evapo-Rust is not acidic, it performed as claimed - meaning it did not affect the remaining intact metal. Before trying this product, I would have used elecectrolysis - which also does a very good job of removing only rust from metal pieces. In comparison, the disadvantage of electrolysis is that it attacks rust by line-of-sight. So, if a rusty surface is not facing an electrode this process will do a poor job of removing the rust. That means nooks, crannies and the insides of tubes and such will also not be affected. -- Evapo-Rust does not have these limitations. Flash Rust (I've seen this when using electrolysis.) After removing surface rust, some steel will quickly develop a very light coat of rust after removing it from the Evapo-Rust. To prevent this, I've read recommendations saying the part should be immediately rinsed and dried after the Evapo-Rust bath, and then sprayed with WD-40, or you can apply a light coat of oil. Another recommendation I read was to spray the metal with a phosphoric acid solution, and let it air dry before painting, if that was the plan. Phosphoric acid is easy to find in hardware stores, sold as a rust remover in spray bottles. Carbon Leech Steel contains carbon and de-rusting can sometimes bring carbon to the surface after treatment, leaving a very thin black surface coating. I have yet to encounter this, but apparently it depends on the carbon content of the steel. If you see this, the recommendation is to use fine steel wool or a wire brush to remove it. A little expensive, but it's re-usable - until it loses its effectiveness. Also, according to other reviews, keep it covered as it will evaporate. So far, I'm very impressed with Evapo-Rust.

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国内品色々試してましたが、綺麗に錆びが落ち切らず何度も漬け置きしたり、酸・アルカリの刺激臭・異臭がしたり、 直接触れない物だったりと扱いが面倒なの上に、錆びが落とし切れず結局後で散々研磨したりしていました。 Evapo-RustははYoutubeのHand Tool Rescueという古い工具をレストアするチャンネルで使用されており、綺麗に錆 が落ちていたので試しに購入してみました。赤鯖だらけになったネジやに黒錆になっているドライバやニッパとかの工 具を試して見ましたが数時間～二晩漬け置きしておけば殆ど錆が落ちます。動画で見た通りの使用感でした。 酷い錆は錆びてた箇所に若干シミが残りますがワイヤーブラシで磨けば落ちる程度だったので試してはいませんが漬け て置く時間をもっと延ばせば落ちるような気がします。 液は酸やアルカリを含まないので素手で触れても大丈夫です。匂いはちょっと癖のある薬品臭がしますが私はそれ程嫌 な臭いには感じませんでした。同社のジェルタイプも同時購入して使用しましたがこっちの方は液体の匂いを濃縮した ようなキツイ匂いです。ジェルタイプはアルミの錆にも使えるのと大きくて漬け置き出来ない物や垂直面に塗っても垂れにくく、効果は液体タイプと遜色ありませんでした。 液体・ジェルタイプどちらも水洗いしただけでは金属光沢までは蘇らず表面にうっすらとくすんだ膜みたいな物が形成 されているので、水洗いして乾燥させた後にワイヤーブラシ等で軽く磨いてやる必要はあります。 漬け置き後に水洗いしなければくすんだ膜が防錆剤としての効果を維持してくれる様です。 ルーターに真鍮製のブリストルブラシやカップブラシを付けて軽く磨く程度で楽に金属光沢が出てきます。 値段は高めですが一回使用の使い切りでは無く、錆落としの効果が無くなるまで繰り返し使用が可能なのでトータルで 見ればコスパは良いと思います。 大き目のジャムの空き瓶に小分けして繰り返し使用してます。使用する度に液はだんだん錆び色に濃く染まりますが、 数回程度使用した位では効果が薄れたような感じは全くありませんでした。

It works well, but I recommend leaving the items to soak for a good 24 hrs. The product can be left to work for an extended period without corroding or altering metals. Also, it should be used at room temperature; cold temperatures inhibit action and slow performance.

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Great product, I used it to restore a completely rusted in and out trunk latch of my classic car. Worked great, unbelievable results. Recommended it to all my friends..

Outstanding product! I’m not one to leave a review but this deserves it! I have a set of solid steel dumbbells that were costumed made years ago which I had spent over 10k on for my boutique gym. Since 2017 they have not been used and were in my garage where they got sprayed with water everytime I cleaned the floor. Eventually they started to rust but I did not care. Last year I had exploring my options for removing the rust, without much progress I had started to lose hope. Until I came across evapo rust. This was my last attempt and to my surprise it’s done wonders! Not to the level of finish they originally were (which is unfair to expect) but significantly better! Close to original state. I’m going to try some polish now but this is the rust removing result! I’m extremely happy with it! Highly recommend.