The power of "The Works" vs rust

[CodyRosa]

Hey guys, I was thinking as I was cleaning my gas tank tonight that.. nobody seems to go for my "The works" method. I decided to show some people my results. I have had better results on my other gas tank. This gas tank sat for literately 30 seconds and the picture is the result of it. Look at how rusty that rim is compared to the other part. Not bad for 30 seconds. Let it sit for 5 minutes and i bet it'll be silver like new.
Look at that rust as I poured it out into my bathtub lol. There was about 3x that after I put more water in and shook it. Tomorrow i'll throw some washers and what not in there.

Now onto the gas cap. The piece where I actually took my time with. I didn't get a pic of what it was before but I'm sure you could guess.. RUSTY lol


Well I let it sit for 10 seconds and most the rust just fell off. After 5minutes the last picture was the result.

I know there are a lot of good ways .. i.e. coke, vinegar and im sure more than that but I thought i'd show my favorite way. I only used one bottle for everything you saw there. Inside the gas tank most of the rust came off and most is weak enough to come off with a splash of water. One bottle is like $1.27 at walmart. I was in my bathroom for maybe 20 25minutes working on those.

If anyone has any pictures of their "The Works" working great please post pics! =D

Thanks for reading and hope some more try this solution to your rust problems!!

Cody R,

[DasUberKraut]

I may try that.

[CodyRosa]

It works great on bolts to but if you do it TO long for things like that it WILL take off the paint or whatever it is and it'll be a weird dark grey color and rust after awhile. My gas cap, tank will be fine though so don't worry about things like those.

MAKE SURE YOU RINSE WITH WATER right after so it stops the reaction. Don't let it touch any rubber seals. It didn't even take the paint off my gas cap to my surprise so that's good.

[DasUberKraut]

Do you dilute it or just pour in the bottle full strength?

[CodyRosa]

for the gas cap all I did was poured full bottle into a bowl and held it in there. Like hovered the gas cap over the works with my hand. Then flipped it over and dropped it in and let it sit in there. That's how i've always done it. You could maybe use it first with sosome bolts so its not as strong. It's normally blue and turns to a green when used. Really nasty greenish brown when its got a lot of rust in it. If it gets a bunch of water in it i'll start to not work so well.

[rosbornejr]

In the future I might have to try this method. You are talking about "The Works" toilet bowl cleaner correct?

[ebaccm26]

I have some extra KLT tanks I need to clean, usually I use vinegar but with the threads that have been posted lately I think I'll give some other methods a try. I'll post pics when I get to doing them.

[Big G]

Looks good Cody...especially that cap - it looks new! I have a couple spare 200E tanks that I've been waiting to tackle the rust situation on. I was going to use the vinegar method, but you make a good case for yourself here. So what section of Walmart would a guy find this stuff in? I'm thinking if I go up to a Walmart employee and ask them where "the Works" is, that they'll look at me like I'm a few bricks short of a load! Ha ha

[CodyRosa]

Thank Big G! and lol no i dont think they will. My friend walked in and bought 15 bottles... 15!!! lol but that was for bombs.. i took some and tried them on the rust. It'll sound weird but I find it buy the food isle lol like where the toilet paper is. At mine the toilet paper and all that is like the last isles buy the food in those cooler things lol.

DO NOT BUY THE THICK FORMULA it isn't the same.. i think its like a gel and not a liquid

And yes please EBA post some pics! I'd like to see others reactions. I will admit getting the gas tanks are hard to do. Make sure your petcocks are on (the rubber will get eaten alive lol) and the rubber off the gas cap. The only downside to this.

And if they tank is EXTREMELY bad and I mean really bad rust and you leave it in there for like 30minutes + it WILL make very tiny pin holes at the seems. At least it did for mine. Not the tank I did last night though. I also sanded mine with 40 grit paper right after lol so that didn't help.

[rosbornejr]

Cody,

You are referring to The Works Toilet bowl cleaner correct?

[CodyRosa]

Rosbornejr Yup! Just make sure its not the thick formula. I don't think that works. Maybe but I don't know. Here ya go.. i went and took a picture.

[rosbornejr]

Nice... that's what I thought. I actually use that stuff on my toilets cause I'm on well water and have a ton of iron in my water and that shiz works!!

[CodyRosa]

to be honest... i've only used it for bombs.. bombs..bombs.. and rust hahahaha.. never tried it on my toilets. It's some powerful stuff against rust though.. amazing stuff.

[rosbornejr]

BOMBS?? I LOVE BOMBS (and yes I was yelling ) I have not seen "The Works" bomb though (I can google it if you do not want to discuss).

LOL.

[rosbornejr]

Just looked it up... LOL. Couldn't wait. So, what happens if you seal up the gas can while the works is in it? Or does it not have the same reaction because the tank is steel not aluminum?