I had to replace the seat on my Bobcat recently and used my needle scaler to remove the rust from the metal base the seat mounts to. I was pleased with the speed of removal, for heavy flaking rust it can actually work as fast as blasting with a fairly large sandblaster. You don't have to wear through the rust as with other methods, it can "peel" or scale layers off. You don't get a white metal finish but do end up with a pretty tight surface.
Hummm Ive never used a needle scaler..or actually even seen one used before. Ill have to check into it.
Gunner
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If it were me, I'd look around and see if I could find somebody to sandblast it. Probably can barter for it somehow. I helped a friend clean up a 28 ft. enclosed trailer that had had the lid off for 8 years, so had to do the frame, sides and roof stringers. Never again, noisy, dirty and took forever. When we figured out how long it took, we coulda worked for min wage ($5/hr)and had money left to buy the paint, the roof sheeting, and lights. And not sucked up a load of rust and crap, even with masks.
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