I bought this thing about a year ago. It's a machinist's chest with the
brown felt on the bottom of the drawers. I put all of my squares,
calipers, v-blocks, etc. in it, and within a week or two, everything that
wasn't stainless steel was rusting where it contacted the felt. So, I took
everthing out, wiped off the rust (which wasn't all that deep), made sure
the tools all had a nice coating of mineral oil on them, and put them back
in again. In about a week, they were rusting again.
Now, granted, my shop is damp. It's in the garage, which is below grade
and exposed to the crawl space under the house. But the thing is, my tools
never rusted before, even though they were kept in the same environment.
The only difference is that my old tool chest didn't have the felt drawer
bottoms.
So, I went a little crazy and just doused the drawer liners with mineral
oil. This helped a lot, but I noticed that some of the tools are starting
to rust again, and still only on the bottoms where they rest on the felt.
Anyone know what's going on? Do Kennedy chests use special rust-producing
felt? I think my next move will be to just rip the stuff out of there. Any
advice appreciated.
-Tom
- posted
18 years ago