Oil for preserving???

[what2do]

Have acquired an old engine for spares. I want to clean up the bits and then coat them with something to avoid surface rust appearing. Any ideas? Cheers, Mitch.

[itchyfeet]

Whats wrong with old engine oil?
thats what i used you will have an endless supply and free
dg engine?

[what2do]

Yep, bought it last year from up north. Sister came to visit at the weekend and delivered it for me. One mint mac head and one dodgy genuine head.

[itchyfeet]

How many rusted studs?
Probably all as its been sat with no coolant for a long time

[Dazco]

We use rustguard 30 at work produced by Pennine lubricants, stops all our finish machined parts from going rusty .

[what2do]

Thanks Dazco, however, it's not exactly sold in major chains! Typical as it's just the sort of product I'd like. Cheers.

[janvanruth]

take vaseline, dissolve it in acetone, spray it on, acetone evaporates, vaseline gives perfect protection forever

[what2do]

Good tip about the Vaseline although I just want to do a couple of bits as and when. Thus, I may buy a large pot of Vaseline And warm it up so that it's runny, sooo tempted to say 'then I can dip my parts in it for a thorough coating' but that would be too obvious. Instead I'll liberally apply with a brush - to my 'parts', of course.

Thanks for that.

[Titus A Duxass]

There's nothing better than dipping your parts in warm Vaseline he says whilst touching himself inappropriately.