Not only was this entertaining but I got to learn something new and never really thought about......well done Sir !!!

Excellent video. It gave me a bunch of ideas of what I can do with my rusty, old nuts, screws & bolts. Might even do it tomorrow. Thanks.

Hey Dan ! The fastest & cheapest rust remover is called “ The Works “ toilet bowl cleaner - Dolla General, etc has a knock off version for under $2 / qt - it’s mostly Hydro Chloride, so don’t soak too long , as it starts eating layers of metal ! Be sure to coat asap w oil or paint , as it re-oxidizes quickly in free air !😊

"soak for a while" = 7 days LOL Good way to clean up nuts and bolts. Well done.

This is a great idea! Good Video

Great instructional video. Thanks!

Wow this was a great video man!!!!

Thank you so much for the knowledge!

Awesome attention to detail.

So fresh and clean 🧼☺️

Very good work! Thank you!

30% vinegar speeds up the rust removal process quite a bit. Regular vinegar is only about 5%. The 30% is available by the gallon in big box stores, online, and possibly from farm supply stores. Some recommend adding metal polish to soft media to get a better result.

I am trying regular vinegar for cleaning and dry them with motor oil. Don't have the sealant like you have. I will see what happens. Thanks for the video! Found this useful. Thanks 😊

Awesome video! Working on a Cj-5 project on my channel and I'll definitely be doing this.

Very cool 👌🏼

shot man, i was worried about how to replace some old large hose clamps for my bus rebuild, now i think I'll try this on all my bolts and springs.

Thanks for the information.

You mentioned crushed walnut, but didn't mention if it was coarse or fine walnut. I went to the store looking and spent an hour googling which type I should use, but didn't have much luck. Could you please tell?

Look into a product line call Corrosion X HD iin liquid in can substitute for the penetration oil and motor oil in the bag.

We live on the beach in Florida. Really easy to collect sand in 5gal buckets. Attach an air hose voila gotta sandblaster.

Great! Where did you find that plastic jug with the lid?

awesome, well i guess i am gonna have to make a trip to harbor freight and buy a tumbler haha.

Does this process apply for Aluminum bolts? They don't rust but got dirt from engine bay (gunk and oil residues). Thank you for the amazing video👍

well after watching this video guess my bolts wont be ready for an entire week...well done btw

Phosphoric acid will do the same in less than an hour at room temp. I use coal slag in my tumbler if I want to go that route.

i know it's an old video, but no matter how much i tried, i couldn't help myself to comment that the JEEP Cherokee gotta have enjoyed it very much. Who doesn't like to have their nuts and bolt polished?? 😊😊

Hey Dan, so what sealer do you use, and how long does it last? I'm wanting to restore bolts from a oldtimer motorcycle I'm restoring and am looking for a solid solution. I heard some people heat up and use oil dipping to make em bakered black and that really lasts long, does your sealer work well overtime ? Also please provide the name of the sealant product :) ty !

Well im glad you didnt need to soak the penetrating sealant in for 3 weeks. Anyone got tips on how to clean hardware in a couple hours?

thanks for the vid! is the sealant an oil or more of a paint/coating?

How about the color black nuts and bolts? Will the black color remain or it will be gone? Thanks

Why not heat them before soaking for black oxide coating? Wouldn't it be longer lasting?

Wow that was a lot of work...

Holy crap I need a tumbler

So when going to reinstall the bolts do you just put install with the motor oil all over them or do you then clean the motor oil off and install?

7:13 Sounded like chris fix XD

Excelente vídeo! What can I use instead of tumbler?

Are you going to zinc plate them to keep them from rusting?

Sir please tell me how to make a tumbler sand blast

Do I need an elsa zip lock bag and if so where can I find them?

Where can i get the tumbler? What is the name? I want to search

So what is the sealer, just basically WD40?

Wouldn't like a rust remover be a lot less time consuming. Like 2 to 4 hours as apposed to a week

Had to pull a solid oak toilet seat, as the three sections were not properly glued together. Well,the front to the sides is fine, but the rear is a joke. I had tried to slip wood glue in on the back center, and then added L brackets under it. Now the brackets are breaking, looking very funky, and the two main bolts for the seat are, after removing the plastic wing things, goopy and sticky. Now the new but not as jazzy oak veneer seat is on, (weighs a LOT less) but at least it's oval instead of the round solid oak job which was correct until the landlord installed a low flow oval. It's like reading Hemingway, ain't it? Anyway, that solid oak needs about an hour of work and the RIGHT glue and new brackets with deeper holes for the screws. Then I can wear it to my parachute class. So, let's see what you have to get my goopy sticky bolts at least hall closet worthy.

What kind of penetrating oil do you use?

appreciate the video, and just want to add that after years and years of doing this kinda stuff I came to realize it always comes down to two things in order to clean the hardware perfectly, chemicals (ie some sort of acid aka phosphoric for heavy rust or vinegar for light rust) and abrasion in this case a tumbler though I prefer a wire wheel on a 4" angle grinder (not on a drill) to really clean the threads, I noticed some of your bolt threads still had gunk on them even after the little tumbler did it's job, not criticizing just making an observation this video is not going on two years so I would really love to see how these bolts held up, the cleaning is the easy part (though yes time consuming) I am more concern with the treatment, did they rust in just two years? courious and for the last part use WD-40 it's in the name

How long should the nuts and bolts sit in the oil?

1 week in vinegar my bolts turned black :( was it too long ?

What about other methods to 'seal' them such as bluing, id rather have dry bolts on hand. Having an oily bolts attracts and hold dirt/dust

Is apple cider vinegar better for cleaning than white vinegar?

Hi I would like to know about this way of cleaning !

hello can you ues that apple cider vinegar in a spray bottle if the bolts are still on the truck

Hey Dan. Your NUTs. .......good content......

Best to plate them instead. Easier than using a wire wheel and bench grinder... but not as effective or efficient. 3 days tumbling? I can get those blasted, wired, polished and plated in a couple of hours.

Harbor freight before work for a tumbler! Check!

Did you add baking soda to stop the acidic reaction

Dan, I'm used to just tossing my cases or hardware into a rotating tumbler with a fine media and would like to ask what benefit does the Apple Vinegar have (?), because right now the only thing I can think of is there is less work for the tumbler to do and less contamination of the media as well - Yes, No, or some other reason. Also, I read one of the comments in regards to painting the bolt heads and washers, I use zinc oxide to prime and then a good petroleum based two-part paint or at least krylon since it's lasted for several years on some steel toys by "Radio Flyer" that I repainted after my grandsons outgrew them and are now waiting for the next batch of kiddies to enjoy, just throwing a coat of good wax on them every few months is basically the secret and maybe getting them out of the elements couldn't hurt. Just for info I have an extensive background in aircraft coatings and spray painted most everything you saw at Disneyland from 1985 until 1994 when I finally quite painting and got into Environmental Compliance for them until I retired in 2011.

Once you oil them you just wipe them off like you dried them right? Can the apple vinegar be substituted with white?

you can speed this process up by attaching an old electric sander to the container , takes about hour to clean , save waiting a week

what grade media did you use?

Do you have to use the sealant?

Hey Dan I noticed you loved WD-40. Seriously try out a can of fluid film. Get back to me when she use it you'll understand ......great. Rust. preventative.

Can this be done without the frozen zip lock bag?? 😜

Well I’m glad I’m not the only one with Cherokee OCD!

How much is the tumbler.

Walnuts?? Crushed shells? Easily available Alternatives?

done sub

nice nuts

Let me just put some PLASTIC OIL into the PLASTIC BAG to cover the METAL items lmao. anyways good video

U think i can tumble in water bottle full of vinegar n salt ?

If you dont have crushed walnut shells human bone meal works just as well.

7:49 whyyyyyy??? 🤯after they were so neat and in order???? 🤦🏽‍♀️

Wire wheel, torch and old engine oil would have taken a hour not 3 days

1 week? Why not just put them in for 1 day and then paint them with rustlyn paint?

Don't have a tumbler or anything like it

a day or so? I thought 10 minutes would be acceptable.

If not nooo good of that just hope there no head hardware in there o your penetrating selant looks a lot like leanseed god forbid it’s a faked type of offense oil 1 the acid reaction not quench Will rust then you have seize with no seize pertinent then you have broken head hardware hmm baking soda the most important but you also forgot the annealing process good luck with those no Wate the persons you sold it to not to mention the mechanic that has to work on it

Nice job but for the time spent it has to be cheaper to buy new nuts and bolts.