Recycling Rusty Fasteners
A friend of mine does high quality restorations of military vehicles. He uses a vibratory tumbler and then has the fasteners cadmium plated (or whatever was original). They look like new. Why go through all that? Well in some cases like on Ford built Jeeps, the goverment did not allow Ford to put their name anywhere on the vehicle so Ford stamped their name on the head of EVERY bolt. By restoring them he keeps the most interesting part of the Jeep original.
A friend of mine does high quality restorations of military vehicles. He uses a vibratory tumbler and then has the fasteners cadmium plated (or whatever was original). They look like new. Why go through all that? Well in some cases like on Ford built Jeeps, the goverment did not allow Ford to put their name anywhere on the vehicle so Ford stamped their name on the head of EVERY bolt. By restoring them he keeps the most interesting part of the Jeep original.