Hey Woodchucker, I've got this thing pretty much all apart and was wondering how you did your number plates when you soaked the gear box in TSP and Evapo-rust? Where did you find your Evapo-rust, What I have seen is pretty expensive for a gal and I'm thinking it would take quite a bit to cover the whole bed. I've been looking for some kind of container that it would fit tightly in with no luck. I have an old truck tool box I was going to soak all the parts in at once but it would probably take 25 gal to cover the bed.
I went out and picked up 3 gal's of kerosene at $5.22 a gal to use to get the bulk of the dirt, grime, grease off the parts and that worked pretty good and it seems to do a pretty good job of keeping them from flash rust. I'm thinking that I'll wait and take the gear box and headstock apart one at a time once the other parts are done to help keep that stuff together. I've just about run out of tabletop space for all this stuff.