我为我的儿子恢复了一辆旧的Tonka卡车

第一张照片是强制性成品PIC。

Second pic is how I found it. Relatively rough all over, but complete. I had been wanting to play with a process called electrolytic rust removal and this truck looks like an ideal candidate for testing that process. It's basically reverse electro-plating that should strip rust off of steel. It looks like it could be a great technique/tool to add to the workshop.

在这种指示中，我会走过我恢复的步骤Tonka卡车回到像新的条件。这是一个原始的80辆卡车，双堆栈排气。

拆卸一切。这涉及钻出铆钉，
小心地展开脆性生锈的钢板，并弹出几个轴盖。

车轮用推螺母保持在轴上。如果你用钳子拉着它们，它们会突然弹出。如果您小心，您可以重新使用它们。如果他们打破，他们应该在当地的硬件存储中少于一个降压。我能够重新使用我的。

There are rivets holding the bed to the chassis. You can drill them out by selecting a bit just slightly larger than the inside shaft of the rivet. Drill on the side with the bigger flared end. Avoid enlarging the hole the rivet was placed through, you just need to get the flared end separated and it'll pop right off.

如果您在驾驶室的下侧面看，有六个小金属标签。轻轻伸直它们并滑出塑料烤架/挡泥板件的金属驾驶室。烟囱，驾驶室玻璃和其他小塑料位均通过拉动它们来删除。

该过程的主旨是您在洗涤苏打水和水溶液中浸没生锈物品（洗涤苏打量增加电导率）。然后，您将生锈的物品连接到12V电池充电器的负极引线，并将积极的导致一些废钢（不是不锈钢！只使用这一过程使用的黑色金属！）废钢收集工件中的生锈和污染物（它是作为牺牲阳极）。该过程不是嘈杂或腐蚀性的，因此它可以是去除锈的相对安全的方式。只是非常小心不要短信你的电池，绝对使用GFCI插座来为你的充电器供电。使用这个过程是我解决这个项目的重要组成部分。液体剥离器可能在油漆上更有效，并且没有足够的铁锈真正证明电解，但在那里的乐趣是什么？

Everything's hooked up and cooking. The workpiece is attached to the negative battery terminal and submerged in the washing soda solution. The washing soda makes the water more conductive and aids in the process. The sacrificial anodes are attached to the positive terminal of the battery and spaced evenly around the work piece. As electricity flows, particles are removed from the work piece and are deposited on the anodes. This will not affect the base steel material, which makes it a gentle way to remove rust.

我更喜欢将充电器直接挂钩到设置，但大多数现代充电器都是智能充电器。直接挂钩，它检测到“电池”超越死亡并表示故障。将实际电池扔进混合中，规避所有不必要的安全废话。

......但严重，不要短的电池。特别是不靠近水。小心你的指挥。

Overview of the items needed for electrolytic rust removal.
大塑料垃圾箱 - （我把我的小车放在多莉上，让它更容易移动）

钢阳极（我使用旧窗口重量，它们在顶部有一个完美的孔眼，用于易于电线连接）

洗涤碱

沉重的压力表线和鳄鱼夹 - 我使用了6awg实木铜，一些跳线末端，我铺设了店铺

充电器/ 12V电池 - 如果您有旧的哑铃充电器，完美。如果您有新的智能充电器，您需要一款汽车电池欺骗智能充电器充电。它可以推动的越多，它的工作就越快。我正在使用12amp充电。

Pull out the anodes after a night of cooking. All the junk on them is material that came off the workpiece. Just scrape 'em off and reset everything if you're not satisfied with the results.

我做了很多刮擦，在我的研磨机上使用了一个线轮，在过夜饼干之间工作。这是一些非常艰难的油漆。

Got the chassis all stripped down. You can see the swirl marks left from my wire brush. I used a variety of different brushes, some by hand, some attached to drills and disc grinders. This paint was very, very tough in the areas that weren't compromised with rust.

发现了一个隐藏在圆形厚的工厂涂料下的Tonka工厂邮票。

Several nights in the cooker. Lots of wire brushing, wire wheel on the drill and scraping with a putty knife.

涂料达到了涂抹而不是剥落的程度。如此接近，但每个最后一点都必须脱掉。

我开始这个项目来测试这种技术，它对生锈的斑点非常好。该过程最适合恢复生锈的裸钢对象。我将很快用一些古董手工工具使用它，但它有很多其他潜在的用途。

I considered going with the bare steel look, but figured kids and the eventual rust patina wouldn't mix well.

我用拨浪鼓涂上了碎片rust。每件上的3-4张轻型涂层。确保避免在一个地方悬停可以避免运行，不要在工件上开始/停止喷雾，让它在处理前彻底擦干。

Put new rivets in the body and started re-assembly. A rivet gun just punches a small metal fastener through a specific diameter hole. It can be pressed in loosely to allow swiveling, or pulled tight to really hold. There are two rivets holding the cab to the chassis and two more holding the bed to the chassis. I put the cab on tightly and left the bed a bit loose so it can dump freely.

I added some vinyl decals that I found online for around $10, and it's good to go!

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