Catching the 69 Pontiac Firebird on fire in slow motion!
Cleaning up a rusted cast iron BBQ burner with molasses and water. Molasses mixed with water 1:10 ratio (by volume). Rust in molasses/water reacts to form phosphoric acid (a common ingredient in off-the-shelf rust converters) right where it is needed. Eco friendly and gentle. Use cheap stock feed molasses. Pressure washers can make the cleaning faster. Takes time – up to a week in my experience for heavy rust (sub tropical zone).
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my dads 68 has the same exhaust manifolds that were on the 69 has sample casted into them
haha ya man but nice ride man shes comming along good
Yeah unfortunatly this time… but made a cool video! Thanks for watching!
haha and thats why they called them the firebird
Yeah thats a good idea… well I didnt burn the place down, and luckily had the camera going for the first start… it all worked out good! lol Thanks for watching!
That’s why you don’t start it after working on it inside, just in case it burns down your house! Always start it the first few times outside, unless you want to make a really cool video lol
It was loaded up and flooded, old owner put a few gallons of kerosene… it had no exhaust off the manifolds… flloor soaked in gas and backfired! BOOM!
OOPS! Thanks for watching!
No exhaust and loaded up… backfired and lit the floor in gas! Thanks for watching!
what happen was the timing out on it along with the short exhaust?
jigly engin
i heard somethin pop maby a after burn which happend to my ants mustang oil
She sounds like a beast!!!
Hey thanks for watching!
Nice video!
Yeah it was a scary one! Cool I got it on video!
Nice! Now that’s what we called “FIREbird” hehehe
Yeah luckily didnt have any damage to the car…. sure was scary though! I hope it gets lots of views!
Looks like the car was all right, bet this vid will get lots of views
Hey thanks man… I’ll have alot more videos of it here soon! Just got the shift kit all together!
its a bad ass car tho
Yeah it was pretty scary!
thats not good
Yeah it was pretty wild….. Hope that never happens again!
wow man
It was the first start since I brought it home…. and it was flooded pretty good. I dont have any exhaust on it yet so fuel leaked right out the exhaust manifolds on the garage floor and…. BOOM!
I’ve been doing some research on this rust removal method because I’m restoring a bicycle and the small parts have a lot of rust. What I am finding is that it only works with sulfated molasses, not un-sulfured molasses like you would find in the baking section of the grocery store. Is this correct? And where might I find molasses that has not had the sulphur removed? Thanks.
Probably would, this video is to show the efficiency of molasses and water as a rust removal tool. The BBQ burner was merely a test strip. When it comes to large items or for removing rust from delicate items amongst other things molasses is the bomb.
a grinder with a metal brush, start coarse and finish fine will do the job in about 20 minutes and will bring that burner to brand new condition, solvants are good only in difficult to access areas, at least that’s my opinion.
good work, Fantastic idea
will this work on steel rim? please reply
Great Matey save me a heap on those expenisve rust treatments! Many thanks. You got love that puppy dog!
Not sure on that, I’ve seen people do large car parts in small water tanks, maybe you will need to try another method if that’s not feasible.
This looks great, but how do I do this on the rear hatch of my minivan? I can’t submerse it in molasses water without it just running off. (its a small amount of rust no wider than my thumb.)
WOW!!!!! Thank you!
awesome thanks for the reply .. ill be using this one .. /salute
no problem. thanks for the reply. managed to clean it up with barkeeper’s friend and water then baking soda and water. sharpened it up and now it’s my favorite knife. bought it for $40 US, turned out to be a $200 knife. =D
Yes I did an old wine knife/corkscrew that was chromed with light rusting on worn, exposed areas, worked fine with no effect on good areas of chrome, seem to recall it was a 2 day soak.
I must clear this up…it is one of my neighbours who’s cat was attacked by my other neighbours ginger tom cat. She was actually herding the Tom back towards his home to make sure her dog didn’t get him (in a mad bout of reprisal hehe), so my dog wasn’t involved (though as you can see she wants to be) and she wasn’t mad at me
I think you are saying the old woman is scolding me?
She isn’t…I must clear this up…it is one of my neighbours who’s cat was attacked by my other neighbours ginger tom cat. She was actually herding the Tom towards his home to make sure her dog didn’t get him, so my dog wasn’t involved and she wasn’t mad at me
I don’t have an answer for that. Me, I would give it a try unless the knife is a rarity or in some other way valuable.
ever used it on lightly rusted chrome ?? how did it work ??
Love 4:22. Can hear something in the background about something biting somethings cat, then ilovetable saying he has to pause…muhahaha
pinche mandilon, se escucha como te esta regañando tu vieja xD
would this work on a rusty laminated knife as well? i found a stainless steel laminated knife with a carbon steel core that i might wanna do some restoring on and i wanna try this out since i got some molasses as well.
it’s a three layer laminate, 2 layers of thin stainless steel and 1 carbon steel core. there’s corrosion on the 2nd layer of stainless steel already happening and in between both stainless steel layers. would it help remove that as well? thanks.
8:1 is OK , I have used 7:1 with good results since making the video. Potency shouldn’t be a problem, my original mix got used for many months.
I used 10 parts water, 1 part molasses – thick, blackish, sludge-like molasses. Would it help to increase the consentration to say, 8 to 1? Does the solution lose its potentcy after a while? It’s still warm here. I’ll try again and let you know. Thanks.
Some things that come to mind, firstly are you using 10 parts water? 2nd I wouldn’t be washing every 24hrs that could be inhibiting the process, check every 2 – 4 days, you wont need to wash off to check – rub a small area with your finger. Third I live in a warm climate area which may accelerate the process (conjecture). There is also a possibility that the molasses is different I guess, I have seen powdered molasses mentioned whereas the stuff I used was liquid, almost black and very thick.
Help! What am I doing wrong? Excited after this vid, I bought my $0.50 per pound feed-grade molasses at local feed grain store. I mixed 10 to 1 in a gallon jug. I dropped in a rusty kick-stand from an old bicycle. Every 24 hours I’d wash it off and rub it down and drop it back in. After 5 days the results were not so good. After drying, I could see the reddish colored rust still there. D’oh! A stern test scrub of #00 steel wool took off an easy to get to area as expected. What am I doing wrong?
My molasses.. muahhh– haha…
Awesome video, a real character, my favourite part was the 13 secs at the end of just the wheelbarrow! Thanks for the tip, using an old wheeliebin is genius