How To Clean Rust Off Pickup Pole Pieces

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All-time method for removing rust from pickup poles?

• Thread starter Janus Alfador
• Start date Jul 27, 2020

• #ane

I have a set of Tim Shaws I'd like to put into a Les Paul. However, one of the pickups' flat poles are caked in rust.

I've seen a couple different methods to remove rust, but I wonder what's the all-time. And one of the methods I saw seems similar information technology could potentially make the pickups more susceptible to rust.

Or, is it better to remove the poles and install new ones?

Here'southward a method of penetrating oil + steel wool + grinding:

Rubbing table salt + lemon juice on the rusted poles to remove rust (but would this make reappear more quickly?):

Here's the Tim Shaw pickup with a lot of rust on it:

I'yard also thinking about replacing the adjustable pole pieces. Is there a certain kind that would sound closest to the original ones?

In this video, the person replaces pickup poles with newer, higher-carbon ones, and it affects the sound and, I recall, gain a bit. The college-carbon pole pieces are brighter.

• #2

I've used Naval Jelly on lots of random rusty things, but never on guitar stuff. From you flick, I would estimate information technology would remove 90%+ of your rust. If you've never used information technology, it's just a 'broth' that disolves surface rust. Might take a few applications. Peradventure clean them upwardly a flake and and so add a little lacquer to proceed them from rusting up once more?

Anyone know a reason OP (or me at some point) couldn't/shouldn't apply Naval Jelly in this situation?

• #three

I retrieve I'd leave it alone. A solvent may damage the bobbin. Scraping, grinding, sanding may send metal particles into the coils.

• #4

get a modest container big plenty for the pickup to be in, with the rusted function face-downwardly
drip enough white vinegar in there so that it immerses the rust, but no deeper (if you don't have vinegar use lemon juice)
at present leave information technology overnight & scrub it off very gently in the morn with a ScotchBrite pad, taking care non to let the vinegar baste back into the pickup
when it's dry put some silicone on all of information technology, not heavy of course, just enough to lightly coat it

• #6

The main affair is that you tin't do anything to the pole pieces that isn't safe for the bobbins and you should endeavor to avoid liquid and then there'due south no adventure of anything dripping/running downwards into the pickup. If yous are confident you lot can prevent contamination, so a shallow puddle of white vinegar or Evapo-Rust would be safe.

I would use Simichrome to remove as much corrosion as possible while simultaneously shining up the bobbins and call information technology a mean solar day. In fact, whatever method you eventually choose to get rid of the rust, I would nevertheless employ Simichrome as a finishing step to shine and glaze the pole pieces to preclude, or at least slow, time to come corrosion.

• #7

The correct answer is- take your pilus cut in to a Mohawk, clothing a lot of gold chains, drive a 1982 GMC van in black with a cherry-red stripe. Side by side, point at the pickup and yell clean... mission accomplished! That or a little rubbing compound used advisedly works great.

• #viii

The correct answer is- have your hair cut in to a Mohawk, wear a lot of gilded chains, drive a 1982 GMC van in black with a blood-red stripe. Next, betoken at the pickup and yell clean... mission accomplished! That or a little rubbing compound used carefully works great.

• #9

I've removed the adjustable pole pieces for several pickups and left each ready in its own jar with some white vinegar for a minimum of couple of days. That actually cleaned them upward well, though the two Tim Shaws which had more than significant rust on them I threw-out the old rusty vinegar and allow them sit for another twenty-four hour period in fresh vinegar - which also discoloured a bit by the end of that day, and I gave one of the sets fresh white vinegar once more and allow them sit for another day.

I cleaned out the spiral slots with a precision flathead screwdriver, and folded paper-towel over the screwdriver head and wiped back and forth in the slot to get dirt and loose rust out.

The two Tim Shaws which had more significant rust on them have black spots where the deeper rust used to exist - which I'grand not surprised past. When I employ rust converter on motorcar parts, I see the aforementioned thing. The pole pieces for the other two pickups I cleaned look pretty much like brand-new and don't have any black spots on them.

Having tried the pole pieces, I'k now neutralizing the vinegar with some h2o and baking soda, as is recommended here: https://homearise.com/neutralize-vinegar-metallic/

I don't know if it's needed, if acrid rest volition eat away at the pole pieces over fourth dimension, merely I thought I'd do information technology merely to exist rubber.

And I've got myself some Simichrome smooth I'yard going to use on the pole pieces after neutralizing the acid.

Last edited: Oct 23, 2020

• #10

I haven't practical the Simichrome smoothen yet, simply hither's the cleaned-up pole pieces from one of the Tim Shaws:

And here's the cleaned-up pole pieces from some Pecker Lawrences:

The xanthous stuff on the threads is wax that stayed on throughout the vinegar launder.

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