Preserving iron planter seed plates

BobReeves · Dec 16, 2016

Resurrecting and old John Deere 247 planter and have a bunch of different rusty seed plates. I'll probably clean up the plates in my blast cabinet but wondering how to keep them from rusting up again. Would think motor oil would be detrimental to the seeds and looking for other ideas/options.

HALGETIT · Dec 16, 2016

Paint them

Philip d · Dec 16, 2016

My fil soaks his rusty parts in a 10% feed store molasses/water solution for 2 weeks than it comes out looking like brand new. Have to paint them after though or they'll rust again.

caterpillar guy · Dec 16, 2016

Hang them on the wall and use the plastic ones if you can get them. Otherwise you will have to paint them. Slip plate painted on them would work and help the seed flow through them at planting time. Slip plate is a graphite dry lubricant for any place you don't want a wet type lubricant.

bcdave · Dec 16, 2016

Brush on RUST RESTORER. It does a chemical reaction with the rust and turns it black. It can be left black or painted.
Dave

Leroy · Dec 16, 2016

If you ever want to use them again in that planter DO NOT paint as the paint will keep the seeds from sliding into the slots. With it being a cotton planter as against a corn planter I have no idea what the plates look like so do not know if a plastic plate would even be avaible. I do know from the parts books the hoppers for the 247 are different than the 246 that is the corn only version that I had. I have cleaned rusty plates with just a wire brush on the grindstone arbor. And I have never had a plate that got that rusty I needed to do anything with, the plates I had to clean were in old boughten planters. If they were going to be someplace that they would rust that much I would just whipe them down with cooling oil, By the time you would need them it would have dissapered enough you would not have a problem.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 16, 2016

Store them in vegetable no rust and the vegetable oil residue won't hurt the seed,I wouldn't paint them.

BobReeves · Dec 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:13:45 12/16/16) Store them in vegetable no rust and the vegetable oil residue won't hurt the seed,I wouldn't paint them.

Had my own reservations about using paint. What about linseed oil?

Preserving iron planter seed plates

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