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A byproduct of the sugar
beet refining process, Rustbeeter™is an environmenatlly-friendly
way to remove rust from steel and cast iron.
Unlike abrasive processes
such as sandblasting and wire-brushing, or treating with acids or caustics,
this beet molasses food-based product will not degrade the base metal
and, thus, the value of your collectible… whether you are restoring
an old tractor, car, truck, engine, tool or other metal antique.
Preservation and restoration
are all about condition. Rustbeeter™products help the serious
collector to preserve the past for future generations.
In the news…
Get a handle on rust!
Squeak, squeak, squeak.
That’s the sound of rusty door handles on the dream car that took you countless hours and a heap of money to restore.
From bumper to taillights, the vehicle seems perfect: The body’s smooth, the chrome sparkles, the motor purrs … and the door handles squeak.
Replacing rusty door handle mechanisms is nearly impossible. They don’t make reproductions and any matches you find at a swap meet or on eBay are probably rustier than your originals. If you don’t clean them at all, the mechanism will further rust, seize up and stop moving altogether. So you squirt on penetrating oil and work the handle back and forth, hoping for the best. But all you’re doing is lubricating the rust. … and the handles still squeak.
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Looking back…and forward
“Amazing” is the only way to describe 2005, as it was a year of growth for the Rustbeeter Family. We launched this website in February, started accepting credit card orders in June and worked a show season in which we logged more than 20,000 miles.
Many of you car buffs undoubtedly saw us at Jefferson and Iola, Wis., or Carlisle and Hershey, Penn., while members of the Vintage Motorcycle Club of America visited our booth at Farmington, Minn., and Davenport, Iowa. There were a lot of tractor shows, too, from Portland, Ind., and Edgerton, Wis., to colorful national meets such as Red Power and the Gathering of the Orange. Midwest Tool Collectors Association members became better acquainted with how Rustbeeter™ helps restore their vintage wrenches at St. Francis, Wis., and St. Charles, Ill., and we even attended the Speed Equipment Manufacturers Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas to rub elbows with others in the industry.
Article published in Belt Pulley Magazine
It sounded like an old locomotive. Chug, chug, chug chug. Chug, chug, chug, chug. But instead of a train pulling into a depot, the big black behemoth was a 10-ton diesel engine wowing spectators at the 39th annual Tri-State Gas Engine and Tractor Show.
Anyone who has ever attended the popular exhibition at Portland, Ind.'s, Jay County Fairgrounds undoubtedly has seen the 1923 Model YV diesel engine built by Fairbanks-Morse. The 100-horsepower, two-cycle, two-cylinder engine is quite a prize, with its 2-ton, 4-foot-diameter flywheel and two pistons measuring 14 inches in diameter each.
A new enterprise has arrived in cyberspace!
On
Feb. 1, 2005, the makers of Rustbeeter"! launched their website, www.rustbeeter.com,
to spread the word about a natural way to remove rust from ferrous
metal collectibles and assist current customers with questions they
might have. A byproduct of the sugar beet-refining process, Rustbeeter"!
is an environmentally safe and easy way to remove rust. The same property
that allows the sugar beet to draw iron from the soil enables Rustbeeter"!
to remove iron oxide (rust) from steel, cast iron, chrome and other
metals except aluminum.
Our humble beginnings.
Peter Spangler found a fist-size bolt in a box of odds and ends he bought for a buck at a farm auction. The journeyman machinist wanted to use it as a paperweight, but the 3-pound bolt was just too rusty to clean without damaging the delicate threads or its black-oxide surface.
"I found a treasure, but it sat on my workbench for 20 years," he said.
Then Spangler recalled once hearing about a folk remedy using beet molasses to clean metal. Now a couple years later, he has a perfectly restored bolt on his workbench and a new rust-removal business -- Rustbeeter™ -- on the side.
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