Molasses Magic

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So here is a tip for all of your rusty things you don't want rusty anymore! Turns out that the sugar beet plant that molasses comes from continually collects iron from the ground while in plant form. When the plant is made into the molasses that we know and love today, the atoms in the sugar have not changed and therefore still continue to gobble up the iron that is nearby.

So in short...... the molasses will strip away the unwanted rust from the hummingbird feeder that your grandmother got you on her visit and make it look (mostly) shiny and new. Turns out there is copper under all that rust!

(Pardon the crappy photos..... still don't have a camera, but you get the idea.)

How to: 1 part molasses

9 parts water

mix in a bucket and put outside (covered)

Soak your rusty rusted stuff until rust is eaten off. (This feeder was soaking for about a week and scrubbed with a wire brush.)