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i have been working on a chain mail shirt for some time now and it keeps getting rust on it.

is there any thing i can do so it dose not keep rusting on me.

If you use the search function you could probably find a lot about rust prevention.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=84432

Here's one after a quick search.

If it's mild steel wire there is not much you can do about it while you are working on it, nor would I worry about it. It will help if you store and work on it in an air-conditioned environment.

The way to remove the rust from maille is to tumble it in some sort of tumbler. I have a sealed 5 gallon tumbler I bought just for this purpose.

After the maille is polished, I have found dipping it in future floor polish works great to protect the maille.

Steve