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   SgianDubh | Nov 07, 2007 02:04am | #1

   Here's my usual suggestion for your hand and portable power tools in such situations. A low energy bulb left running permanently inside a cabinet. Being low energy, in this case 7 watts, they usually last for years. The one in the photograph had been in the cabinet and running permanently for at least 18 months when I took the photograph, which must have been about six months or a year ago-- it's still working.

   The running time is very unlike incandescent bulbs, some of which last as little as a couple of days or a week, but if you're lucky they'll last six or eight weeks before breaking. Low energy bulbs therefore win every time.

   I'll leave it to others to suggest ways to keep rust off your big machines. Slainte. 

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   Edited 11/6/2007 7:40 pm by SgianDubh

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   BobSmalser | Nov 07, 2007 04:12am | #2

   It can rain 270 days straight where I live, so almost all my hand and power tools used in boatbuilding regularly get wet.

   I treat rust with phosphoric acid, apply phosphate bluing to bare iron and steel, dry and wipe them off with an oily rag before putting them away, store them on pegboard hangers rather than shelves for good ventilation, and heat the shed they are stored in.

   http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=19372

   Makes a big difference. I almost ruined a new L/N plane by absentmindedly treating it like one of my blued planes, only to come back the next morning to find it covered with rust.