How to easily remove rust with baking soda

This rust control substance has been used for a long time. It is part of modern tools designed to care for metal objects.

To influence the rust with soda, water is added to it and mixed until a thick slurry forms. The resulting mixture "close" the rusty place. After 15... 20 minutes, wipe with a metal washcloth, help with a scraper. If it was not possible to clear everything at once, they repeat the procedure, maybe more than once.

To combat rust, you can use not only baking soda. Sometimes it helps very well... potatoes. Vegetable culture contains oxalic acid, which reacts with rust and helps to destroy it.

Potatoes remove small spots of rust. Cut the tuber, sprinkle the incision with salt and wipe the problem area. You can leave the potato on it for 15... 20 minutes. After the item you need to rinse well, wipe and dry.

Vinegar and lemon help in the fight against rust. Squeeze juice from the latter and mix with vinegar in equal amounts. The mixture is applied to a rusty stain that has formed on clothing, tiles, a metal object. On the last stand 2 hours, on the rest - 15... 20 minutes. After it should be washed surface, dry.

For a long time, compatriots have used Coca-Cola or other types of sparkling water in the fight against rust. By the way, not our compatriots learned about Coca-Cola aggression in this matter, although this is attributed to them in various sources. For the first time, American housewives began to use this overseas drink to combat rust. The effect of Coca-Cola on rust is explained by the presence of phosphoric acid in the drink, which dissolves corrosion deposits.

There is another remedy - Alka-Seltzer. Designed to make life easier after alcohol abuse. But he discovered a property... remove rust.

Items with traces of rust are placed in a container, poured with warm water, Alka-Seltzer is added - 4... 6 tablets. Things can withstand 5... 10 minutes, get out, washed with clean water, dried.

Suitable for cleaning metal objects from rust and... ketchup. It (if not, then take tomato juice) is dripped onto the problem spot and after 5... 10 minutes they are wiped dry.

If all the described methods do not help, then professional rust removers or rust converters should be used. Their principle of action is the same - substances react with rust, as a result of which a coating forms, which is removed or painted over with paint.