Thread: One for the newbies - table saws & rust

I'm pretty sure that a spray of silicon may help.

Sad to see rust on a good tool isn't it

I have found Inox is very good when used with a fine scourer pad.

(silicone sprays, although good for rust removal/prevention, may get into the timber and cause problems with finishes)

Silicon is a very bad idea. It will effect many finishes that you may use on the timber later. With acrylic lacquer it will cause "fisheye" effects.

And if you use those gloves with the rough rubberized finish to help pick up large pieces of timber, don't leave the gloves on your table either - you get more than a hand print of rust. Been there, had to fix that.

clean the rust off and coat the serfise with a clear varnish and it will never happen again.

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggg Silicon

Can confirm real problems with "silicone" (silicon is a solid element and looks like a metallic rock - it can be sprayed onto surfaces but needs ~$1 million bit of kit to do so)

A few years ago I was accidentally using a silicone impregnated rag to remove the finish from a chest of drawers I was restoring. The rag had been used to polish a car with a cut and paste silicone wax - problem was both the rag and wax were the same orangey-pink colour(definitely not a shed protocol colour!). When I applied first coat of poly the result was a mess. Completely sanding back the surface didn't work, the silicone must have impregnated parts of the timber, or the sander just redistributed the silicone all over the place, and the poly would not adhere. In desperation I took the piece out of the shed and polished it using car wax and sent it on its way - it actually came up quite nice and it can be useful if you want a hard surface. But whatever you do, keep the stuff out of your shed.

BTW I use trad wax or camelia oil on my machines. And currently my shed smells of rancid canola oil from a leaking chainsaw

You don't get these problems with saw tops with a Triton

Originally Posted by Stuart.

You don't get these problems with saw tops with a Triton

... you do once you scratch through the paint!!

I'm taking delivery of some machinery soon and won't be able to take a trip to carbatec for some silverglide or traditional wax for a wee while - in the mean time, would applying WD40 or CRC 5.56 protect the table from rust without causing problems with the timber?

Originally Posted by jisk

I'm taking delivery of some machinery soon and won't be able to take a trip to carbatec for some silverglide or traditional wax for a wee while - in the mean time, would applying WD40 or CRC 5.56 protect the table from rust without causing problems with the timber?

I'd use a lanolin spray instead. I would not use WD40 as in the past I have had rust form on tools it was sprayed on (quite badly).

It won't prevent rust in the mid to long term, specially WD40. Great for getting water out of sparkplug leads, motors etc, but it DISPLACES water, not gets rid of it. Once the WD40 starts to evaporate, the corrosion is as bad or worse than ever. Floor wax is probably better - remember 'polish on, polish off'.

If you are getting machinery delivered from Carbatec, why not ask them to stick a can of silverglide in the box - they stock it.

Found lanolin spray to be the best protection. The others are just glorified diesel.

And where might one find lanolin spray?