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With the various small leaks in my roof, I get castings rusty on occasion. I use a 4" mini-grinder with a wire cup brush, as coarse as you dare, and rub the tables down with bars of canning wax. Minutes of work! If you want to get fancy, lick the table with a Prestolight torch while waxing.

Doing more than a chemical cleanup of the metal will involve getting that table flat again. My bet is that if the table has been well used, there will be a slight depression in the region of the blade so it may be wise to just have the whole thing surfaced down a few thousandths on a surface grinder. That, of course, means the complete disassembly of the whole table to get the top free and then finding a wide surface grinder.

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Take the table off and take it and a $50 bill to a guy with a Blanchard grinder. When you're done you'll need to machine any tooling that rides in the slot to be a little thinner, as the slot will be shallower after grinding.

But the table top will come out looking really new. This time keep paste wax on it.

GWE

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The flame of a torch puts out quite a bit of water vapor. Best to use a heat gun to warm your iron machine while applying wax. --Doozer

I am really partial to Appliance Epoxy Enamel. It is too humid in Houston to try to keep cast iron clean and polished.

Brownnsharp