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You walk out to the shed and there it is. The axe head you left out in the rain. The hatchet that came back from a camping trip damp. The cast iron skillet on the high shelf you forgot to oil. The truck frame, the brake lines, the wheelbarrow, the gate hinge. Rust. The slow eating of your good iron tools by the air itself, one season at a time, until what was a sharp clean tool your father gave you is a flaking ruin you have to throw away or pay a man to fix.
In this video I show you something almost no one believes the first time they see it. There is a fine brown powder you can buy for about three dollars, mixed with water in a cup in your kitchen, that does this — you brush it on the rust, and the rust itself turns into a hard, dark blue-black coating that protects the metal underneath. The rust does not just stop. The rust becomes the protection. The disease becomes the cure.
That is not me being poetic — it is real chemistry, written down in the books since 1813 by a French chemist named Henri Braconnot, and used today by the Canadian Conservation Institute as a standard procedure f
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You walk out to the shed and there it is. The axe head you left out in the rain. The hatchet that came back from a camping trip damp. The cast iron skillet on the high shelf you forgot to oil. The truck frame, the brake lines, the wheelbarrow, the gate hinge. Rust. The slow eating of your good iron tools by the air itself, one season at a time, until what was a sharp clean tool your father gave you is a flaking ruin you have to throw away or pay a man to fix.
In this video I show you something almost no one believes the first time they see it. There is a fine brown powder you can buy for about three dollars, mixed with water in a cup in your kitchen, that does this — you brush it on the rust, and the rust itself turns into a hard, dark blue-black coating that protects the metal underneath. The rust does not just stop. The rust becomes the protection. The disease becomes the cure.
That is not me being poetic — it is real chemistry, written down in the books since 1813 by a French chemist named Henri Braconnot, and used today by the Canadian Conservation Institute as a standard procedure f
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00:00You walk out to the shed, and there it is, the axe head you left out in the rain,
00:05the hatchet that came back from a camping trip damp,
00:09the handsaw with the orange crust creeping up the blade,
00:12the shovel by the back wall, the cast-iron skillet on the high shelf you forgot to oil,
00:19the truck frame, the brake lines, the wheelbarrow, the gate hinge, rust,
00:25the slow eating of your good iron tools by the air itself, one season at a time,
00:32until what was a sharp, clean tool your father gave you,
00:36is a flaking ruin you have to throw away or pay a man to fix.
00:42Most folks fight rust the way the hardware store wants them to.
00:46A bottle of rust converter, $15, $20, $30 a small jar,
00:51a spray can that lasts a few months and you buy again,
00:55a new tool to replace the one you let go.
00:59Year after year, pain and pain, watching your good iron slowly turn to powder.
01:06Now I want you to sit with this.
01:09There is a fine powder you can buy for about $3 mixed in a cup of water in your kitchen
01:16that does something almost no one believes the first time they see it.
01:21You brush it on the rust, and the rust itself turns into a hard, dark blue-black coating
01:28that protects the metal underneath.
01:31The rust does not just stop.
01:34The rust becomes the protection.
01:37The disease becomes the cure.
01:40That is not me being poetic.
01:42That is the chemistry, written down in the books since 1813.
01:48My name is Elias Yoda.
01:51I am Amish, and I farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
01:55I am going to be honest with you right at the start, the way I always am,
02:00and especially today, because the title of this video is bold,
02:04and you deserve to know what holds up plain and what holds up with a fair word of explanation.
02:11Folks will tell you this makes iron rust-proof forever.
02:15That is the bold claim.
02:18The truth, which I am going to tell you straight, is more useful.
02:22It stops your rust in its tracks, turns it into a protective coating,
02:28and gives you metal that needs a small touch-up, perhaps once a year,
02:33instead of new rust eating it down to nothing every season.
02:38That is what they mean by forever.
02:40A thin coat, once a year, instead of throwing the tool out in a few years.
02:47Honest is more useful than impressive.
02:50And once you see it work in your own hands, you will not go back.
02:55Before I go further, for the folks who want all of this,
02:59every method I have shown on this channel, and the ones I have not gotten to yet,
03:04all in one place, I have put it together in a book at my website, EliasYoder.com.
03:12I will not push it again in the video.
03:15If you want it, it is there.
03:17Now let me show you the powder.
03:19Stay with me.
03:20Let me first tell you what is really happening,
03:24because once you see the simple chemistry of it,
03:27the rest of the video makes plain sense.
03:30Rust, that orange flaky stuff eating your iron,
03:34is what happens when iron meets water and air,
03:38and slowly turns to iron oxide.
03:42The metal itself loses its tight, hard form,
03:46and becomes a soft, crumbly compound that just keeps spreading.
03:52Once it starts, it does not stop on its own.
03:56Rust feeds rust.
03:58The orange creeps wider and deeper,
04:02year after year, until the tool gives way.
04:06Now there is a thing in nature called tannin.
04:09Sometimes folks call it tannic acid.
04:12It is what makes a cup of strong black tea taste dry on your tongue,
04:17and what makes a red wine pull at your cheeks,
04:20and what makes an oak gall and an oak leaf and a chestnut hull bitter.
04:26It is what the old leather tanners used in their oak bark vats
04:31to turn animal hide into shoe leather.
04:33That is where the word tanning comes from.
04:36It is everywhere in the forest and the pantry,
04:40in oak bark and tea leaves and grape skins and pomegranate rinds.
04:46And here is the small marvel of it.
04:49When tannin meets rust,
04:52the two of them grab onto each other in a chemical handshake,
04:56and the orange flaky rust converts into a brand new compound
05:01called ferric tannate,
05:04a dark blue-black coating bonded tight to the metal underneath,
05:09hard, stable, and most importantly,
05:13not eating the iron the way rust was.
05:16The very rust that was destroying your tool
05:19becomes the seal that protects it.
05:22This is real, well-documented chemistry.
05:25A French chemist named Henri Braconneau wrote it up plain as day back in 1813.
05:32The Canadian Conservation Institute,
05:34the folks who restore iron artifacts in museums,
05:38things they intend to keep for hundreds of years,
05:41they publish the same exact procedure as their standard method.
05:45The museums use it.
05:47The military has tested it.
05:49The peer-reviewed papers spell it out.
05:52This is not folk magic.
05:54It is honest chemistry sitting in the books for over 200 years.
05:59And the same compound the museum man uses to protect
06:03a thousand-year-old Iron Age sword for the next century
06:07is what you are about to mix in a plastic cup for $3.
06:12The same dark blue-black on antique ironwork
06:16that has lasted 300 years on someone's porch,
06:20that is ferric tannate.
06:22The same near-black ink in a medieval handwritten Bible
06:27that has held its color for 800 years,
06:30that is iron and tannin, the same chemistry.
06:35Tannin and iron have been protecting each other
06:38longer than anyone alive can remember.
06:41Most folks have just never been told the name for it.
06:45Now I owe you the honest scope of what this works on,
06:49before you go and try it on the wrong thing
06:52and feel like I lied to you.
06:54Because while folks will tell you this works on any metal,
06:58the plain truth is different and more useful.
07:01This works on iron and steel.
07:05That is what rusts orange,
07:07and tannic acid only does its handshake with iron.
07:11So your axes, your knives, your hatchets,
07:15your hand tools, your cast iron pans,
07:18your truck frame, your trailer,
07:20your wheelbarrow, your wood stove door,
07:24your gate hinges, your toolbox,
07:27your nails and bolts,
07:29your old farm machinery,
07:31your wood-burning stove parts,
07:33any honest old iron.
07:35All of these are made of iron or steel,
07:39and the powder does its work on all of them.
07:43It does not do this on aluminum or brass
07:46or copper or zinc or stainless steel
07:50or anything galvanized.
07:52Those metals corrode differently.
07:55They do not make orange rust,
07:57and the tannin has nothing to grab onto.
08:00Use the powder on aluminum,
08:02and you will get nothing for your trouble.
08:05So when you reach for this,
08:08reach for it for honest iron and steel.
08:11That is most of the rusting things
08:13in your shed and your barn and your house.
08:17Almost everything that rusts that orange color.
08:20But know what it works on,
08:23and use it for that.
08:24That is honest.
08:26The bold title says any metal.
08:30The honest farmer who is teaching you says
08:33iron and steel,
08:35which is most of what rusts,
08:37and which is most of what you have.
08:40Now let me show you what to buy
08:42and how to mix it,
08:44because the parts are simple and cheap,
08:46and you can have everything you need
08:49with one online order
08:51or one trip to the hardware store.
08:54Tannic acid powder, food grade.
08:57This is the main ingredient.
08:59You search for that exact phrase online,
09:02and you will find it in many places.
09:05Small bags, 100 grams or so,
09:08for $3 to $5.
09:10That little bag treats roughly 40 feet
09:14of rusted metal,
09:15which is most of a small farm's tools,
09:18an entire truck frame,
09:20or all the iron work around a house.
09:23One bag lasts most folks years.
09:27A small jar of phosphoric acid rust remover.
09:31The hardware store calls it navel jelly,
09:34and it is $2 or $3.
09:36This is the helper.
09:38Tannic acid alone does the main job,
09:41but adding a little phosphoric acid
09:44makes the conversion faster and deeper
09:47and turns any leftover rust
09:49into a second protective compound
09:52called iron phosphate.
09:54The conservation studies
09:56and the military tests both confirm.
09:59Together, they work much better than alone.
10:02Get both.
10:05Distilled water, not tap water.
10:08A gallon at the grocery store is a dollar.
10:11The reason?
10:12Tap water has minerals
10:14and sometimes chloride in it,
10:17and chloride is the very thing
10:19that makes iron rust worse.
10:22You do not want to fight the chemistry
10:24with the water.
10:26Distilled is clean
10:28and lets the powder do its work.
10:31A foam brush or an old cotton rag for applying.
10:35A few cents.
10:36Steel wool or a stiff wire brush
10:39to prep the metal first.
10:40Rubber gloves and eye protection.
10:43And I will say a word here
10:45because phosphoric acid in the navel jelly
10:48is a real acid
10:49and will sting your skin and your eyes
10:52if you are careless.
10:53Wear the gloves.
10:55Wear safety glasses.
10:56Work in a ventilated spot.
10:58This is not lye,
11:00but it is not water either.
11:02Treat it with respect.
11:03That is the whole shopping list.
11:06Five, six dollars all together
11:08for enough to treat every piece of rusted iron you own
11:12and have powder left over.
11:14Now here is how you mix it,
11:16plain and simple.
11:18Take a clean cup or a small plastic container.
11:21Pour in about 100 milliliters,
11:23that is just a little under half a cup,
11:26of warm distilled water.
11:28Stir in four grams of tannic acid powder,
11:31which is about a level teaspoon.
11:34Stir until it dissolves.
11:36The water will turn the color of strong black tea,
11:39dark brownish,
11:41the same color as the bark it came from.
11:44That is normal.
11:45That is the tannin.
11:46Then stir in about a teaspoon of navel jelly,
11:50the phosphoric acid.
11:51The mix may darken further
11:53or stay about the same.
11:55Either way is fine.
11:57That is your formula.
11:59Three percent tannic,
12:00a touch of phosphoric,
12:02distilled water.
12:03It is what the museum books call for
12:06and what the conservation folks
12:07have used for over 200 years.
12:10Now to use it.
12:12First, prep the metal.
12:14Take your stiff wire brush
12:15or your steel wool
12:17and knock off any loose, flaking rust,
12:20the orange bits that come off in your hand.
12:23Do not sand it down to bare metal.
12:25That is the mistake most folks make.
12:28The tannin needs rust to react with.
12:31Without rust, it has nothing to grab.
12:33So remove only what is loose enough to fall away
12:36and leave the firm rust where it sits.
12:39The firm rust is what becomes the protection.
12:42Brush the solution evenly over the rusted surface.
12:46A foam brush, an old rag,
12:48even a clean paintbrush works.
12:51Cover every rusted spot.
12:53Now watch.
12:55Within 10 or 15 minutes,
12:57sometimes a little longer,
12:58the color begins to shift right in front of you.
13:01The orange becomes a darker brown.
13:04The darker brown becomes gray.
13:06The gray becomes a deep blue-black.
13:08That is the ferric tannate forming.
13:11That is the chemistry working in real time
13:14where you can see it happen.
13:16The first time you see it,
13:17you will not believe it.
13:19Folks who watch it the first time
13:21tell me the same thing,
13:22that there is something genuinely satisfying
13:25about watching the rust become the protection.
13:28Let it dry completely,
13:30two to four hours,
13:31depending on how warm and dry the day is.
13:34The surface will turn that final dark blue-black,
13:37dry to the touch, hard.
13:40Then apply a second coat.
13:42This is important.
13:43The conservation experts are plain about it.
13:46Multiple thin coats work much better
13:48than one thick coat.
13:50One thick coat can flake.
13:52Two thin coats, fully dry between,
13:55build a denser, more bonded layer.
13:58Brush on the second coat,
14:00let it dry another few hours.
14:02Finally, top it off.
14:04For tools, axes, knives,
14:07anything you handle a lot,
14:09rub on a light coat of boiled linseed oil
14:11or melted beeswax.
14:13For a vehicle frame or a truck undercarriage,
14:16a rubberized undercoating spray over top.
14:19For a cast iron skillet,
14:21you simply re-season it in a 350 degree oven
14:25with a thin coat of oil,
14:27the same way you would season any cast iron.
14:29The top coat is the final weather barrier,
14:32the ferric tannate stops the rust,
14:35and the linseed oil or beeswax
14:37keeps water off the surface.
14:39That is the whole procedure.
14:4245 minutes of work over an afternoon,
14:45$3 of powder,
14:46and a tool that was eating itself
14:48is now sealed and protected.
14:50Now I owe you the honest words
14:53about how long this lasts
14:54and what its real limits are,
14:56because this is where the title's word
14:58forever deserves a fair explanation.
15:01For most outdoor and tool use
15:04in normal weather,
15:05the coating holds for a long time,
15:07years for many tools.
15:09The blue-black layer is hard and bonded
15:12and does not just wash off.
15:14The cast iron pan stays seasoned and dark.
15:18The axe head holds its finish.
15:20The wheelbarrow does not start eating itself again.
15:23For tools that get heavy use
15:25or live outdoors year-round,
15:27you do a small touch-up about once a season,
15:3020 minutes,
15:31the same brush and coat procedure
15:33on whatever spots have started to dull or wear.
15:37Once a year,
15:3820 minutes,
15:39from the same bag of powder
15:40you bought a decade ago.
15:43Where it does have its honest limits,
15:45in very harsh conditions,
15:47sea air heavy with salt
15:49or roads heavily salted in winter,
15:52the coating will degrade faster
15:54and you may need to redo it
15:56more often than once a year.
15:59Salt is the enemy
16:00of every kind of metal protection,
16:02not just this one.
16:03The same truck frame
16:05in dry Pennsylvania weather
16:07and the same frame
16:08in a coastal seaside town
16:10will not last the same length of time
16:12on any treatment.
16:14That is not a flaw of the tannin,
16:16that is the nature of salt.
16:18And honest scientific word.
16:21There are some studies
16:22that say tannic acid alone,
16:24used on heavily contaminated rust
16:27without the phosphoric helper,
16:29does not bond as tightly
16:30as folks once thought.
16:32That is why the combination,
16:34tannic plus phosphoric,
16:36the way the museum books
16:38and the military tests do it,
16:39is what I have showed you.
16:41The two of them together,
16:43applied to clean and well-prepped rust,
16:45are far more reliable
16:47than either one alone.
16:49Honest is more useful
16:51than impressive.
16:52The formula I gave you
16:54is the one that is held up
16:55under the closest
16:56scientific looking at.
16:58So when I say rust-proof forever,
17:01what that really means
17:03in plain farmer English is,
17:05stops the rust right now,
17:07turns it into protection,
17:09and with a small,
17:10once-a-year touch-up,
17:11keeps your iron in good order
17:13for as long as you own it.
17:15That is far closer to forever
17:17than a spray can
17:18that lasts three months.
17:20And it does cost about $3.
17:23Now I want to take a moment
17:25because this is the part
17:26that matters.
17:27Think about what you just learned.
17:29A powder, $3 a bag,
17:32that performs the same job
17:34as a $15 jar
17:35of branded rust converter
17:37sitting on the hardware store shelf.
17:40Pick up that jar
17:41on your next trip in.
17:42Read the back of it.
17:44Look at the ingredient list.
17:46You will see the same words,
17:48tannic acid
17:49and sometimes phosphoric acid.
17:51The same chemistry,
17:52in a smaller container,
17:54with a brand name on it,
17:5610 or 15 times the price.
17:59How can that be?
18:00The honest answer
18:01is the same one
18:02I always come back to
18:03on this channel.
18:04There is no money
18:05in selling a man
18:06a $3 bag of powder
18:08that lasts him years
18:09and treats his whole farm.
18:11There is good money
18:12in selling him
18:13a $15 bottle of rust converter
18:15every spring
18:16and every fall
18:17and again next year.
18:19The hardware store
18:21does not have a sign
18:22on the aisle saying
18:23here is the same thing
18:24for less than a quarter
18:25of the price.
18:26The branded company
18:28does not run a commercial
18:29telling you to look
18:30for the raw ingredient.
18:31So the powder sits
18:33on a different shelf,
18:34in a plain bag
18:35with a long name on it
18:37and most folks
18:38walk right past it
18:39because no one ever
18:40told them what it does.
18:41That is not a conspiracy.
18:43There is no villain in this.
18:45It is simpler.
18:46A system that makes its money
18:48on you not knowing
18:49has no reason to teach you.
18:51So the old knowledge
18:53of the blacksmiths
18:54and the leather tanners
18:55and the museum men
18:56and the simple country chemists
18:58has quietly stopped
19:00being passed down
19:01and the hardware aisle
19:03has taken over.
19:04My grandfather would not
19:06have called this
19:06an Amish secret.
19:07He would have called it
19:09what it is.
19:10Plain chemistry
19:11that good farmers
19:12and good craftsmen
19:13used to know.
19:14The bag has been on the shelf
19:16the whole time.
19:17Most folks have just never
19:18been told to ask for it.
19:20You are being told now.
19:22So here is what
19:23I want you to do.
19:24This week,
19:25order a small bag
19:26of food-grade tannic acid online,
19:29$3 to $5.
19:30Pick up a jar of naval jelly
19:32at the hardware store,
19:34$2 or $3.
19:35Grab a gallon of distilled water
19:37at the grocery, $1.
19:40Find the rustiest,
19:41honest piece of iron or steel
19:43you have got.
19:44An axe head,
19:45a hatchet,
19:46a cast iron skillet,
19:47an old shovel,
19:48a handsaw,
19:49a toolbox,
19:50a gate hinge.
19:52Put on your gloves
19:53and your safety glasses.
19:54Mix the formula.
19:56Knock off the loose flakes
19:57with steel wool.
19:59Brush the dark,
20:00tea-colored solution
20:01onto the rust
20:02and watch it happen.
20:04See the orange turn to brown.
20:06The brown turn to gray.
20:08The gray turn to deep,
20:09blue, black
20:10while you stand there.
20:12The first time you see it,
20:14you will understand
20:14why the museum folks
20:16use this same chemistry
20:17on the iron artifacts
20:19they are trying to save
20:20for the next thousand years.
20:23And the same powder
20:24in your hands
20:26will save your good iron
20:27for the rest of your life
20:29with one small touch-up a year.
20:32Tell me in the comments below,
20:34what is the rustiest tool
20:36you have been meaning
20:37to bring back?
20:38The axe?
20:39The saw?
20:40The cast iron pan?
20:42The truck frame?
20:43The wheelbarrow?
20:45And once you have tried it,
20:46come back and tell me
20:47what changed
20:48when you watch the rust
20:50turn dark
20:51right under your brush
20:52because the first time
20:54you see it
20:54is something most folks remember.
20:57I read every single one.
21:00Next time,
21:01since we have been talking
21:02about saving the iron
21:04and the steel
21:04you already own,
21:06I'm going to show you
21:07the old way
21:07my people sharpen
21:09and re-edge
21:10a dull axe,
21:12a dull knife,
21:13a dull pair of shears,
21:14so a tool you thought
21:16what was finished
21:17comes back to better than new
21:19with nothing more
21:20than a stone,
21:21a strop
21:22and ten minutes of your time.
21:24It is the natural next step
21:26after today.
21:27Don't throw the rusty one away,
21:30bring it back.
21:31The powder is on the shelf
21:32and the chemistry
21:34has been waiting for you
21:35the whole time.
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