Meigline Rust remover

Don't know that product but there are dozens in the area.

'Rust' or corrosion for our purposes is oxidized metal, that is, your pretty grey steel is now porous brown iron oxide. Removing those oxides is good, but nothing replaces the lost metal. Worse, the remaining metal under that corroded layer is usually porous, pitted, uneven so care should be taken to apply a well adhered coating to clean metal after 'rust removal'.

Worse with plated surfaces because oxides are bigger than metals. That means blisters, holes, lumps, often under the plate layer. Once the surface is compromised there's no good topical solution- usually remove plating and corrosion then either re-plate or paint.

Is this a rust remover or a stabilizer?

Rust stabilizers can work very well at preventing from rust from spreading, but they don't remove rust at all, but chemically bond with it to form a stable (usually black or brown) compound. You need to remove all of the loose surface rust before applying, though, and I have seen some cars that were entirely made up of loose surface rust stuck together.

On the other hand, there are a lot of new rust removers that have appeared in the past couple decades. Some of them work as well as electrolytic removal, and aren't hazardous like phosphoric acid dips are. But they remove rust and it's up to you to protect the new surface. And if all that is left is rust there won't be anything there afterward.

--scott

Made in China. Meigline is a reseller / distributor for hundreds of non-related products. Is likely a scam per: