One of the easiest methods I've found for stripping rust uses lye, water and a battery charger. It goes like this... take a plastic container like a 5 gal bucket. fill it with water and add lye (red devil drain cleaner or similar product) about 1 tbls per gal. Stir well. take the rusty part, degrease it, wrap it a couple of times with wechanics wire and put it in the solution leaving a "tail" of wire sticking up above the liquid. Take a clean bare steel rod, rebar is good, and place that into the bucket NOT TOUCHING the rusty part. Now hook a battery charger up to the two parts, negative on the rusty part,(I think, been a while since I've done this)positive to the clean steel and plug it in. If I've remembered the polarity the rusty part should start to bubble and fizz gently after ten minutes or so. Let this cook for 24 hours. When done, the part should be removed, scrubbed with a bristle brush and hosed off. Most of the rust should be in the bucket, the rest should wash off. Second treatments are rarely needed. I've done anything that'll fit in a 5 gal pail, 16.5" wheels in a 16gal shop vac base, tierods in a length of 4" pvc pipe capped at one end. Obviously large stuff like diff housings and entire frames can't be done this way. I did the ends of my d60 by standing it on end in the 5gal bucket /forums/images/graemlins/yikes.gif I don't recommend this, thats a heavy sucker. Give this method a try on small stuff, then get creative. The solution can be freshened with lye a few times. I dumped the used stuff down the toilet where the drain cleaner would go eventually.
