Posted by katorpus (jrb@…>)
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com, Bob <rweeks6508@…> wrote:
One more thing about the drill. Its not make for the salty air
us
seafare folk want to live in. So oiling is important and
preventive
maintenance is good too. I am in the Chesapeake Bay so its not
pure
salt…however for those in Fla etc there is a product called
BullFrog
rust stuff that works good on a lot of things. I got the pads and
put
them in the red carry case with twosided tape for the drill and
when I
am done I leave the drill in there and so far no rust. I guess
that is
the biggest difference between marine and everything else but it
should
not be hundreds of dollars!
I use a LOT of things on the boat that aren’t made for salty
air…things like black iron flat bar scrapers to get barnacles off
the prop and other stuff with questionable plating or “paint”, some
of which are periodically IMMERSED in salt water.
I’ve found that the following steps really work well…at minimal
cost.
If the item can be immersed in water (NOT your drill), then wash it
thouroughly and dry it off. If it’s a hot sunny day, a little
sunshine helps. Spray it thouroughly with WD-40 and place it into an
adequately sized ziploc bag along with folded up paper towel
saturated with WD-40. Seal it up and put it away in the locker.
Chances are, when you get ready to use it again, you might actually
have to wipe some of the residue off first.
Eventually, the WD-40 will ruin the ziploc bag, but they are
cheap…and easily replaced. You can continue re-soaking the same
paper towel.
If it’s an electrical item (like your drill), or something really
expensive, you can do the same thing using a (more expensive) product
called Corrosion-X (Google it up, but available in a lot of marine
stores). This stuff is fantastic and (unlike WD-40)won’t gum up the
works of electric motors and electrical connections and the like.
I use it a lot around the boat…and it smells better than the WD-40
It really helps to use it BEFORE you immerse whatever-it-is in the
saltwater, reapplying afterwards. It’s not a rust remover, so if
you’re spraying it around the engine compartment, etc, remove any
visible rust beforehand, then spray it…it will keep even unplated
metal shiny and clean.