I've had a bucket of lightly rusted bolts and other odd fixings sitting in molasses for the last couple of weeks and it has done a lovely job of removing the rust, but they flash rust quicker than they can dry in the sun at present. Manually wiping them off isn't an option as there's hundreds of them (it's my odds 'n sods fixings bucket).

Any recommendations for post-molasses treatment of bulk items? For smaller runs I've dropped things into a large ziplock bag with some WD40 and squelched it around for a while which keeps the rust off until things are dry and can be oiled, but I'm operating at a different scale this time and could do with a better method.

Cheers


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