Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

0000 Steel Wool
Wood Bleach & 3M White Scrub Pads

and while you're at the paint store, pick up a few of those little wooden handle brass bristle brushes they usually have in a bucket at the the counter. these are great for getting around spoke nipples and cleaning up the grommets.

All chrome parts on this bike were literally orange with a light rust when I got it. I used WD-40 (you can just use mineral spirits, it's the same thing), and 0000 steel wool. The reddish color on the rims is the reflection of the fence, not rust. If you look carefully, you might make out the lousy photographer in the headlight housing.
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Oh, yes. Definitely get one or two of those. Use the wooden end to push the steel wool around the spoke nipples and up against any tight spots. Some people use those oversized popsicle sticks - tongue depressors, I guess. I used the thin end of a cedar shingle...

Those white scrub pads from 3M are great for polishing everything. They don't scratch any surfaces. I use them for polishing chrome. When they get worn out you can use them for scrubbing the grease from your hands, they dont hurt your skin. My wife uses them to clean the sinks.

Thanks the scrub pads with a little WD40 worked like a charm.

which 3M white scrub pads are you referring too? Dobies? or some other? perhaps a 3M item number

Don't use steel wool. It will leave little bits of itself behind and accelerate rust. Get brass wool instead.

Or try balled up aluminum foil.

cole and aluminum foil, myth busters says it works

Like for all rust,soaking in oxalic acid is the easy way.I put the rim in an old mtb tire,fill the bottom with oxalic acid so that about 15cm of the rim are covered and rotate it every I pass the shed.It works for me,I go now and rotate.

I bought a kids' 45-inch, three-ring inflatable swimming pool to do my rims. Works fine; I can get two rims in at a time, too. Only bummer is no diving; says so right on the side...

cole?

are there any negs to the oxalic?
if I can find something toss away to put it in.
otherwise I think I might try to find the brass wool, what I know I've seen in some store.

Oxalic acid can change colors of basic steel or galvanized steel, and takes the shiny zinc plating off nuts and bolts, so be aware of that fact (usually the colors turns kind of grayish). Might also be good idea to bath items in baking soda mixture after use, so the acidation process is stopped.

If a neighbour kid goes swimming in it, does he come out bright and shiny? Or did you put a fence around the pool, saftey concious guy you are?

He comes out alright, after about five minutes or so. Not shiny exactly; I prefer to think of it as the roseate glow of health.

cola.