Purple Power & Evapo-Rust - product review.

[Alaskan_TA]

Here is the 489 8 3/4" case from my 1970 Fury as removed;

 

[Alaskan_TA]

Here it is again after soaking in Purple Power for 24 hours, the painted areas survived;

 

[halifaxhops]

I wont use that look what it did!

 

[Alaskan_TA]

Here it is again after the bottom was soaked in Evapo-Rust for 24 hours & then rotated for the photo, note the rust-free line & paint daubs still intact;

 

[halifaxhops]

Good combo one for grease the other for rust.

 

[Evan Dutch]

Good product review. I pulled an 8 3/4 from a fury not too long ago. I tried brake cleaner to clean the housing. Didn't get that far. Then purple power. Didn't do much either. I took it down to the local machine shop and had it hot tanked. That worked a lot better. Only costs me $20 and the gas to bring it down there.

 

[brian6pac]

That looks nice, but that's definitely not the experience I had with evaporust. After soaking my parts in it everything turned black and looked bad, I called evaporust and they told me that was because the parts had a high carbon content and that it would clean off with a wire brush. It was more work to clean off the black than it was to clean off the light rust that was on the parts, What a waste of time and money. I will never use that stuff again or will I recommend it to anyone.

 

[ir3333]

i have used evaporust a lot and the results are usually good.For large items i have mixed it 4:1 with water to get enough to completely submerge the part.
I diid a complete engine block once...wish i taken some before and after pics as it turned out great,but took a few days with the diluted solution.
...the nice thing is it can be used over and over.

 

[Evan Dutch]

I wont use that look what it did!

Huh?

 

[jos51700]

All I need is a tank big enough for my valiant

 

[1969383S]

Evaporust!

Still have about 3.8 gallons from 5 on a complete resto on my 69 FB! Some parts need long soaks and some just a little, gotta check them often. Preserving factory paint marks is a plus for some of us!

 

[chryslerfat]

Purple Power works ok for floor scrubbing also.

 

[justinp61]

Be careful with purple power, I've seen some pitting on roller bearings after long soaks.

 

[Alaskan_TA]

I have a new bearing kit here for it.

 

[twistthethro]

I used Evapo-Rust on my trim that had surface rust and it worked great for that

 

[69conv]

I'm thinkin one of those inflatable pools aught to work!!

All I need is a tank big enough for my valiant

 

[Evan Dutch]

I'm thinkin one of those inflatable pools aught to work!!

If you have nearly $70,000 for evapo rust

 

[69conv]

Yeah but you can use it more than once. You could actually make money here in the rust belt. Bet it would eat a Ford down to nuthin tho.

 

[Evan Dutch]

Oh well haha

 

[1969383S]

Evapo-rust is pricey but can be used for while. Forget what I paid for a 5 gallon bucket from Northern, but it was worth every penny paid. I did pour it back in the bucket through a old tee-shirt to sift the junk removed from the parts soaked every time I used it. It is enviormently save, so they say as well. So the extra was just poured out in the woods. Like I said I still have 3.5 gallons left from 5 and a lot parts went through it.

 

[69conv]

I used it to soak some bolts and ended up with a cool black coating on them. Looks like a flat black anodize.

 

[Evan Dutch]

That stuff work good? Haven't used it. I've used krud kutter in the past. It works ok but isn't as safe as evapo rust I'm sure.

 

[1969383S]

I used it to soak some bolts and ended up with a cool black coating on them. Looks like a flat black anodize.

Then you let them soak to long, unless that was the desired outcome!

 

[69conv]

What I was looking for. Let them soak about 3 days.

 

['Cuda_ragtop]

I use it for parts that fit in a 3 gallon bucket. For larger parts I put them in a 55 gallon drum with a 10:1 mixture of Water and Molasses.
Removes rust and won't harm the metal. Takes longer but cheep compared to evaporust. Got my molasses from the Co-Op feed store.
A couple dash frames after a week in the soup. They don't fit all at once so I rotate and cover with a large plastic bag. Didn't get it all but a really good start. Pretty sure you can tell which end was submerged in the Molasses/Water mix. Thought about looking for a used bathtub or farm trough on CL but these were the biggest things I soaked. 10:1 with water you can fill a 55 gallon drum for less than the cost of a 3 gal bucket of evaporust. Just don't be in a hurry. Look it up on YouTube. Some people do entire fenders or even car bodies.