My first experience cleaning with citric acid is all thanks to you, Bill. I enjoy your videos but moreover I learn from them. I appreciate your work.

Thanks for sharing Bill

Nice work Bill!

I have been soaking those globes in citric acid for a long time now. Works miracles! Another great video. We love them down here in Oregon.

I had used vinegar for my less than perfect 327 mica globe and may use Maguiars Plastic X headlight cleaner to see if it clears up the mica some more. Too bad about the evaporust but a good lesson to be learned. Definitely will get citric acid based on your good experience with it. Appreciate all your vids very much. Subsribed after finding info on Rinnai Eatons stove. Working on the check valve for 2 burner now as the pip has mushroomed and needs replacing. Hoping a spare pip for my Coleman 1950 one burner will work.

I've personally had good luck with Evaporust for the mica chimneys. The difference is I usually leave them soaking for 24 hours or more. So far they've all come out beautiful.

I am a big fan of citric CNN acid but I also gave in to evaporust I find I like to use the evaporust on olated stuff like 502 stove burner bowls just okayed stuff for me

I really like citric acid but found out the hard way it'll strip the coating off of a vent cap. I left a pretty badly beaten vent for a 321 for a few hours and came back to see the solution cloudy green and lots of bare metal showing. After washing it there was very little green left. I'm glad to see it didn't harm the mica.

@king.coleman

Жыл бұрын

I did the same thing once with an original blue 321 vent. It didn't strip the porcelain. You'd have to have an incredibly strong solution and a lot of time to do that. But it did leave it cloudy and pitted. I had put a lot of vents in citric acid for rust removal, but never one that recent. Not once was it a problem and I've done it many times since, but the Toronto factory changed something around 1970 and the newer porcelain is different.

I have watched many of your videos and found them extremely helpful in cleaning and restoring old colemans. Would there be anyway you could do a video on how to replace the mica pannels on the chimney. I have a couple that are decent shape but the mica is full of holes. Keep up the great work!

@king.coleman

4 күн бұрын

I'd like to. It's not something I've done to date.

@king.coleman My citric acid arrives today and I have not used it before. Ive watched many of your videos and thank you for that! Im sorry to keep bugging you but your knowledge is detrimental to my restoration process. Did you "soak" the mica shade or did you "simmer" the shade for 20 minutes?

@king.coleman

Жыл бұрын

I got the water up to boiling temperature, then put the mica chimney in it and let it simmer on low. My concern isn't the temperature. Higher heat won't hurt the mica or steel. My concern with a rolling boil is that it might jostle fragile, already damage mica and cause further damage.

When you did the Citric Acid on the one mica chimney did you boil it or just soak it in it ??

@king.coleman

4 ай бұрын

The water was at a simmer. Hot water gets the job done faster, but any temperature will work.

Bill, have you considered soaking the Coleman mica chimney in citric acid? Wondering if it will wick between the sheets and possibly dissolve/eliminate the dark stains left by the Evaporust. I share your disappointment in the results but am hopeful there is a remedy. Love your videos sir! God bless!!

@king.coleman

Жыл бұрын

Soaking in citric acid is precisely what I did. That's the whole point of the video: comparing a rust remover soak to a citric acid soak.

its so hard once the dirt gets in between the mica layers to ever get it out.

This happened to someone recently that used evaporust. Did you do hot Citric Acid bath?

@king.coleman

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Just at a simmer.