Originally Posted by
arty dave
Has anyone had paint react to evaporust? I wrapped some evaporust soaked cloth around some tubes and it left a kinda textured white haze on the paint after washing/neutralising. Does anyone have advice on what to do now? It's a 50's bike and the paint is already quite beaten up, I just want to save the rest of it.
I had discolouration with a gelled phosphoric acid product, not surprising as dyes generally don't like strong ph extremes.
No such problems from the OA bath, but it is probably much weaker.
And of course, none from electrolytic removal either.