surface rust on cast iron

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DaveH9

DaveH9

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Jun 11, 2009
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NW CT
Hi,
I have a lightly used small Dutchwest cat stove. I took it out of the basement and put it in the garage for storage. Now it has some surface rust on it. What is the best way to clean it up before I sell it? I was thinking to cure it like a frying pan, superfine steel wool, then rub it with cooking oil and move it out and fire it. How would the pros do it?
 
We have had Dutchwest stoves for over 20 years and I would not recommend cooking oil for thet top of them. We always had light rust on the top of our stoves at the end of every year due to steamer on the top of them and we would just hit it with a wire brush and touch it up with some high temp black paint. I tried one other thing that worked really well also I would touch up the rust with a wire brush and then spray a high temp clear coat on the top and it worked great at keeping them from rusting.
 
Thanks guys, I will wire brush and paint it.
 
If you want to treat is a bit gentler then you might try steel wool.
 
I suppose if you want to fry up some eggs on it without a frying pan you could go with the oil and season the stove . . . as mentioned . . . never heard of such a thing until just recently . . . me, I would go with the more conventional method of wire brushing and hitting it with paint.
 
Backwoods Savage said:
If you want to treat is a bit gentler then you might try steel wool.
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Good point as most of the rust you see is just verysuperficial I'll have to remember that idea from now on, Thanks BS for pointing that out.
 
You are very welcome Certified. Now go out and split some wood...
 
I seasoned mine last week, lit a fire from a cold start and it burnt off, I waited until it was about 400 and I reapplied the oil and it was fine after that. I did put some polish on after but I guess it would have been fine without. I am not a fan of any aerosol paint. JMHO and good luck!

Edit.. How did they keep stoves from rusting a couple hundred years ago before high temp paint? I have no idea?? but the bacon grease worked for me and it made my hungry!
 
Backwoods Savage said:
You are very welcome Certified. Now go out and split some wood...
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Still to hot for me to split wood....I bust my hump in the fall and early spring and the splitter and saw sit dormant for the rest of the year. :cheese:
 
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