Vinegar, rust killer.

[Woody]

If you want to remove rust from steel quickly and without using any hazardous materials such as acids, fill a plastic container with water, add a copious amount of baking soda to the water. Then attach a wire to a steel or stainelss steel plate and hang it in the water. Attach a wire to the rusty object and hang it in the water on the opposite side of the container from the steel or stainless steel plate. Attach the negative lead from a battery charger to the wire attached to the rusty object and the positive lead to the wire attached to the steel or stainless steel plate. Turn on the battery charger and walk away. In a short time the rusty metal will be cleaned to bare metal and the water can be saved for further use or poured down the drain. No hazardous waste to clean up.

Woody

[easilyconfused]

I usually rinse it with water. I suppose I should be using baking soda, even when I use quench since the water is acidic?

[waianvil]

I use pickle vinegur it a drywall can after I get a piece all done forgeing then I put it in a drywall put it in there over nite next day take it out next day all the slake brush right off and looks a new piece of steel again,need to put a lid on the drywall container

[ironantlerforge]

After taking the steel out of the vinigar I hose it off with the garden hose which usually removes all the rust down to the bare metal if it has been in the vinigar for a couple of days. I then use an air hose or torch to dry it off. I never really have any problems with flash rust after that. Without waiting too long though, I spray "Deft" lacquer on my pieces which after a lot testing works better than many other products and is affordable. Walmart is the cheapest place I have found.