Originally Posted by
mcadwell
The Evaporust worked wonderfully for the parts in the puzzle box. ...
And I found an adaptor that let's me use the snap-on feet from my other machines.
Yay! I'm so glad things are working out for you and your treadle.
The snap-on feet aren't going to give you the rust trouble that the steel feet do, but that Evaporust is really awesome stuff. When I was refurbing more or less all the time, I had a jar of it that I reused over and over. One time, I apparently put something in there and promptly forgot about it.
It was years before I poured out the jar and there was just one little lump of metal in it with no indication whatsoever what it had originally been!
I think I used Simichrome on the feet and on the nickel-plating on the handwheels, needle plates, etc.
Have fun! Getting my hands dirty is one of my best therapies - gardening or tinkering, good for whatever ails me.
