Baking Soda to stop rusting process.

[pooch156]

What is a good ratio for baking soda to water as a solution to use to stop the rusting process?
Also I have found that Laurel Mountain Forge barrel brown is far more aggressive than that offered by Dixie Gun Works.

 

[Kno-ie]

What I did on mine was to insert it into a 2in conduit capped at one end six inches longer than the barrel, hanging by the tang bolt hole. I then pored boiling distilled water, waited a couple of minutes, then started spooning the baking soda. Stand back when or if you do this because this is going to erupt the water out of the pipe. I replaced the water that boiled out and spooned in more soda. Repeated the program until it stopped boiling and fizzing. I used the entire box.
I used boiling water because I was looking for more of a blackish red color. I'm sure that cold distilled water will give you the same in stopping the rusting.
I finished doing the last carding with a coat of 0w2o motor oil and let sit for 24hours.
Hope this helps. I don't believe there is a good ratio rule.
Kno-ie

 

[Eric Krewson]

I found that LMF is at times hard to get to stop rusting. I mixed up a slurry of baking soda and water to be paste-like and covered my barrel with it. The rusting didn't stop so I wiped the barrel down several times with ammonia, it still didn't stop. I was assured by the guys here that the rusting would stop in time, it did about a month later.

I heated the barrel and wiped it down with motor oil, the rusting continued.

I kept carding with denim, I didn't get a lot of rust but enough to keep carding and oiling.

 

[Sidney Smith]

I've always used liberal amounts of motor oil over the course of several days to stop the rusting process. It works.

 

[rchas]

I let the barrel soak for 2-3 days in the strongest household ammonia I can get; then a 2-3 day soak in motor oil. Final step is a couple of coats of paste wax

 

[Eric Krewson]

I agree with rchas, all of the small parts I submerged in ammonia overnight stopped rusting immediately, wiping it on a barrel wasn't nearly as effective.

Browned and submerged in ammonia, no after rust.