Don't place your nuts (& bolts) in Lime-A-Way

[middle.road]

I was sorting and trying to organized all my fasteners last week. Had a couple of boxes of goodies from estate sales.
There was a jam jar full of brass nuts a screws and it was all gunky and corroded. Not sure what was all over them.
Not thinking it through I tossed some Lime-A-Way into the jar and let it sit overnight.
hmmmm.... Turned 'em copper! -hehe

 

[royesses]

Alchemy, turning lead into gold or brass into copper and get rich quick. Like magic!

Roy

 

[Bob Korves]

I wouldn't even put my fingers in Lime-A-Way, much less my nuts...

 

[Silverbullet]

That's like a Brazilian wax off treatment , oucH

 

[petcnc]

I wouldn't even put my fingers in Lime-A-Way, much less my nuts...

What is Lime-A-Way?

 

[Karl_T]

active ingedient is phosphoric acid

 

[Eddyde]

Prolly ate the zinc and left the copper.

 

[middle.road]

It's only on the surface, I polished and turned a flat on a head of one of the screws.
I'll not be polishing the rest... They'll go in drawer and probably still be there at my estate sale. . .