 Good evening YouTube, I'm going to show you how to clean some tools. Occasionally you find that you've got some tools that are a little bit dirty. Like this one. It's feeling pretty bad. And you want to brighten them up. The simple way to do that is to take a rag, any old rag I'll do. Old pair of pants, something like that. Get some WD-40. Spray it on the rag. And then gently wipe your tool. Make it much nicer. Much cleaner. And even on the scrotum you'll get a bit of work. Hopefully see. That's a little bit cleaner and shinier. Now there are some tougher bits on this. Occasionally you've got some tools that are a bit more muck. A bit more rust on them. For that you can use more vinegar. To soak the tool a bit. So if your tools look like this. Or like a lot of other tools. Like this. The light, gentle touch will not work. So this was a box of tools that I forgot was in the garden. And it got rained on. And left in the garden. And now I'm trying quite hard. Those won't work. Surprisingly this does work. I can't change which angle it goes. And you know. Things are a bit grimy. So first off. I'm going to give it a quick wash with some soap water. And then I'm going to put it in the mold vinegar. To show you the results. So the procedure for the first step is quite simple. Get the tool. A bucket of warm soapy water. Warm because you don't like having cold hands. Just rushing it around so I'm not going to do anything. So you get a scrubbing brush. One that you've already ruined by trying to clean your hand. When you've had a little oil on the toilet. It's perfect for this. And you give it a scrub. It's not easy to do one handed. But even with one hand. You see. Just takes the surface dirt off. Prepare it to the other side. Fairly filthy. It's not perfect. The purpose of this step is just to get the loose stuff off. So that when you put in the vinegar. There's less rust in there. For the vinegar to attack. That isn't part of the tool. What I really want is all the vinegar. To work on the rust on the tool. Parts are going to submerge. I'm going to try to get some similar ones. I'm going to try wrapping and just dampening. So I've got some moving pliers. Both of those pliers are seized. I've got a couple of silvery wrenches. They're nice. They're really rusty. Cold chisel there. And then a really rusty screwdriver here. The bottom of my tool box. I found this cool little thing. I had completely forgotten it was in there. I'm not sure I knew it was in there. It's like little set of graded wrenches. Which is completely seized and ruined. So hopefully it's magic. I've got a lot of tools. So I'll see which method works best and then carry on. And I'm going to be throwing that away. But you can see there was a lot of grot on there. But they cleaned up pretty well. Just with a bit of scrubbing. There's a bonus. Even my scrubbing brush. It's cleaned up and lost a lot of the stuff that was on it. So just a bit of dish soap. Some warm water and some scrubbing. And it gets to tar off that too. Right. So here's the before. I'll check back in a couple of hours. One last thing. It's going to add vinegar. So I'm just trying to dampen these ones. Not use a ton of it. So everything's just wrapped up. Nice and close. So the paper towel will get soaked. Keep it all against the surface. That's looking too much. But there we go. Bring it to me. And these. Just simply. So merge. I'm cheating. I've got an old jar of pickle vinegar that I'm going to top it up with as well. I'll show you how it gets on a bit. I did check in on this stuff after a couple of hours. There were a few little marks coming through on this paper. But nothing like now. This is now about 10 hours later. Because I got late in the night. After two hours those pliers were not moving nor were the ones in there. I'm going to take out this. And rub it very heavily. This wasn't really heavily marked. And things like this. Very light. It just came off straight away when I rubbed it on my finger. So I'm hoping I'll give it longer. That looks like it's all coming off pretty well. So the two options to do next. Scrub it with a little brush or just give it a wipe down. So I'm going to try and give it a wipe down first. I've got one handed for the usual thing we try on your videoing with a camera in my hand. That's pretty good. This wasn't very badly. Some worse bits around the end here that suddenly need more. And then I think just to get into the little holes I'm going to use this old toothbrush. Give me a sec. I'll fetch a few parts out. I'm going to put them in really clean and see how they turn out. So I've got this I'll try. They look like now. They're both scrubbed. Everything's have scrubbed. So that's turned out. So we've got this wrench from before. So she came out pretty good. That was the one wrapped in that bit of paper towel. So it's pretty clean. There's still some quite bits on it. This is quite raised. See in the profile. So it's not perfect. But it's probably much better than it was. And this is the wrench that had been left in vinegar bath overnight. Again, there's a couple of bits on it that are not really coming up. But they're the really rough raised bits. All the surface stuff. It wasn't too lumpy. It's coming out pretty well. And I've been through the rest of everything and cleaned that up. So we've got these pincers which look like they're still silver underneath those that are in paper. It's a pretty good job of working for service. I can't move them. I'm not going to force them. I'm going to try and put some penetrating oil and things on them. Maybe they'll be usable again. Maybe they won't. This was my sort of worst bit. This is the cold chisel. It doesn't look fantastic, but it has cleaned up pretty well. That was just wrapped in the paper towel again. That paper towel, which you can see is pretty filthy now. There's a bath. I've wrapped in paper towel. That's turned out not too bad. Still a few marks on it and things, but this was pretty grotty before I forgot it in the rain. And I had some tiny little things. That's a Allen key that was really scummy. I put it in there. It's still pretty scummy, but it's almost sort of a usual shape now that was in the paper towel. There's everything that I left in the bath, because the bath has got the advantage that you can fit quite a lot in there. There's another spanner that's come out really well. The thing I quite like about the bath and the vinegar, all the little surface stuff, as you put the brush on it, has gone away. Oops. The other pair of pliery grippy things. Again, surface colors come back quite nicely. You can't move it still. Cleaned it up well. Here's the nice big wrench. That's come out quite well. It always had this quite a texture to the surface, but that side looks amazing. I think this is the side that didn't get so much rust or something any way before, or this happened to be the side that was down in the bath, and I don't know if that actually had any effect on it. I think it's just not so bad aside. The ends and everything are nice and clean. My bad piece for in there was this manky screwdriver which is still a pretty manky screwdriver. It is a potty end, but you probably have some luck getting on there. I didn't really expect that to come out. That looks pretty far gone. And then some other nice bits that I've put in the bath, because I had space for chrome. This was pretty gnarly but wanted to sell a scrub. Always looks like new. That was once a chromed. That hasn't worked so well. Again this really rough stuff. It just doesn't come out so well in there. I mean if I bath it for longer maybe it would. But I think I'm going to have to put like a stiffer brush on it, because I am using only this old toothbrush, just because I wanted to see how much force needed to apply to scrub things off. And the chrome fitting turned out pretty clean in most places. The brush can get down little holes and things. Pleased with that. This looks amazing. This was pretty covered in gack. And some stuff that I didn't expect it not to come out. It's almost, that is almost perfectly clean now. It looks pretty covered for a while. I kept this not scrubbed half of this to give you an idea what it looks like before. So this is the unscrubbed side. See this brown is on there. Even just from being in the bath that looks a little bit better. As we rotate around this is the side that I've just put the toothbrush across briefly. Yes, looking almost like new. This black stuff where it was sat on the bottom of a thing that doesn't clean off so well. But everything else comes up pretty good. And that's what I've got. So this looking similar to the last piece. But again I've brushed this all off. It's all looking pretty good. And then I had my tiny magical spanner set. Now the colours come back on the surface of them. You can see the individual parts are starting to show a little bit more of I think. And they leave that in the bath a while longer because it's really awful. And then I'm going to try and get the penetrating oil out to get this apart because it's not much use but it's kind of cool. Back in the bathroom. And then a UJ that's seized well I didn't expect it to un-seize but it's now looking much cleaner. It's a tool that I might actually look at and think I'm going to take care of it and treat it with their respect. As these have all got to the point where I was thinking about binning them. Now I've got a lot more tools to do. I'll post an update once I've been through everything and see what these turn out like. This is what I'm working with here. I think most of these will actually clean up pretty well. That I'd be surprised if it looked much different afterwards because it's just an iron bar. I should be able to spot my plumbing wrench in the pile at the end. So that's what it looks like now. Not too bad but not great. Chuck things in the bucket give them a few hours each in a light scrub. See how that goes. I might for some of these worse bits see if I put an electric wheel on them but that'll probably be for another day. I forgot one last thing that's very important. After you've had them in this bath the vinegar is quite acidic. That's how it eats through the it's through the rust and things. What you must do to stop it continuing to eat through your part is give it a damn good rinse. Just brush all the vinegar off and neutralise that acid. Some people use bicarbonate and soda and things to neutralise the acid which you can do but if you just rinse it quite a lot then you should be washing all the acid away. And then once it's had a good rinse leave it to dry. Get your oily rag a bit of old engine oil clean engine oil on it give it a light wipe over or WD-40 if you like. WD-40 is quite thin so I think it tends to evaporate off but it's better than nothing. So yeah, get it dry, wipe your rag and store it away somewhere out of the rain. Here's the final result. So there's a few more tools cleaning but I'm pretty pleased with these some of these chrome ones have come up almost perfect. That was a nice work. That was a really black bar before it was a bit there but it wasn't in the vinegar. After it came out, bright and shiny. Yeah, it's all turned out really rather nice. And let's put a bit of WD-40 on them because it doesn't everything work okay. It's slightly silvery and you can actually read some of the writing on them. Pattern numbers and things like that. Use some strong badge numbers and things like that. Actually work and sell pliers now. It's all pretty good. It's these socks and things that look nice and shiny again. And it's all had a wipe down with an oily rag which I've still got some of the oil in my hand because I didn't have this that one. I didn't do that. Some of these ones like this were super shiny before of course it had been out in the air for a few well maybe two hours or something drying. It picked up all these marks and things again so I wiped all the second batch straight away as I stayed nice and really bright and shiny. Maybe I'll take a bit of that clean sometime. That's all pretty good. There we go. From one horrible grotty toolbox for rust to new doorboxes and doors.