Can a Vibratory tumbler be used to remove rust

Muriatic acid is the only common acid that evaporates; they all dissolve in water. I think the EvapoRust works great and no worries about pH before it goes down the drain.

Threads look like burrs to tumbler media, so if the media is aggressive enough to be removing burrs that size they will flatten and smooth the threads, too. Polishing media shouldn't do any damage.

----- Regards, Carl Ijames

What's that Lassie? You say that anorton fell down the old rec.crafts.metalworking mine and will die if we don't mount a rescue by Mon, 10 May 2010 18:52:29 -0700:

used to have phosphoric in it, but not any more.

Just an update. I took the vise apart and put most of its parts into a muriatic acid bucket, which I keep in the backyard for just this purpose. The only items I did not put in the acid, are screws, nuts and the big pressing screw, which cannot be removed from the yoke. I will just wirebrush those.

The tumbler is working pretty well, but I think that putting rusted vise parts in it is asking for too much. I am tumbling an assortment of various stuff just to see how well it works.