Re: Tar dissolves rust and is the best primer coat on steel

From: Steve Turner (spam_at_spam.net)
Date: 11/12/04

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    Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:42:01 GMT

    On 11 Nov 2004 15:12:10 -0800, modelthry@yahoo.com (Jeremy Smith)
    wrote:

    >Archimedes Plutonium <a_plutonium@iw.net> wrote in message news:<41931916.960EF3FA@iw.net>...
    >> It was mirror shiny metal of steel as if one
    >> polished steel. There was no evidence of any rust.
    >
    >Are you sure you didn't do some inadvertant polishing when you scraped the tar off?

    It has been my hypothesis that the process is mechanical removal of
    rust, as implied here.

    It would be interesting to repeat the "putty knife experiment," but
    instead of pulling off the dried tar, simply allowing the knife to sit
    in a jar of kerosene until the tar dissolves away. What would the
    underlying metal look like in that case? Naturally, this experiment
    should be done with a control.

    Steve Turner

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