How can you make old barbed wire shine as much as possible?
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How to shine old barbed wire.
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How many feet do you want to shine up?
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Very carefully? ;-)
John Kuthe...
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10 feet at a time, maybe.
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Transition Zone expressed precisely :
Electroplating?
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Phosphoric acid will remove the rust without damaging the wire but I've never seen barbed wire that I'd call shiny coming off the spool.
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Great answer ! ... 10 feet at a time ..
X 2 ? X 1000 ?
Duh. John T.
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Jewelers rouge and a buffing wheel but I doubt it stays shiny long unless you shoot a coat of clear lacquer on it.
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The rust (Iron III oxide) already damaged the wire. Iron III oxide or rust IS damage to the iron in anything.
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Would you be better off just to buy new? An Ebay seller has some for about $45 including shipping for a 330 ft. roll. There are shorter pieces for sale also. Farm supply stores come to mind. Tractor Supply and Orschelns are a couple of those.
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Sigh... For the pedantic phosphoric acid will convert the Fe2O3 to ferric phosphate, FePO4, which is water soluble. It will not react with the remaining iron unlike hydrochloric (muriatic) acid which will form FeCl2 and hydrogen gas which is also water soluble. As a bonus phosphoric acid will leave a phosphate residue which will deter the iron from immediately rusting.
No, it's not going to miraculously convert the rust back into iron but it will do no further damage.
'Naval Jelly' is one commercial product that uses phosphoric but it's less expensive to use the dilute sort generally found with the masonry supplies since it is also used to etch concrete.
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Some people collect the various types of barbed wire for display purposes but I don't know if that's the OP's intent.
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Silver (or aluminum ) paint?
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In a dust form while in a kiln, maybe.
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On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:19:38 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe posted for all of us to digest...
To OP: Cold galvanizing spray or get it galvanized $$$.
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That reminds me, whatever happened to Martinizing, and why did it always take one hour?