Today I made a lot of progress on the Honda CL200. A guy that bought some parts off of my CB360 had told me that if you take a little aluminum foil and dab it in dishsoap, it will remove rust instantly. I didn’t really believe it, but thought I would try it anyway. Well, he was right. I don’t know if it’s just the soap that does it, or just the aluminum, but either way it started removing the rust almost instantly.

To test further, I got out a wire brush and dipped it in the same soap and it seemed to work almost as well, but then again I think this brush has aluminum bristles because they seem to bend so easily.

A gotcha is that if the metal is pitted you’re obviously still going to need to do some grinding.

I am going to try to upload some pictures later.  Right now the uploader in my wordpress is totally screwed for some reason.

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