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Old 01-18-09 | 05:15 PM
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Oxalic acid is your answer. Remove chemically, rather than removing metal with the rust. I ruined a nice (but rusty) chrome fork that way.

All the chrome on my $16 thrift store Lotus was revived with oxalic.





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