Yeah, I was wondering about that. The whole plan with the 5 gallons is to drop multiple parts in to de-rust. There's only 1 door hinge in there now. I'll put 4 muffler hangers in from my Camaro soon too. I'll strain it after all those have been cleaned. Can't see doing that after every small part..
I have paint strainers, that should be fine enough, eh ? Now I need to clean out 1 of my other pails for this.
The heater works, but was set too low, so I turned it up to 88°. Several hours later, the liquid is pleasantly warm, but so is the whole dang pail. I'm loosing a lot of heat that way, soooo I found some thick shipping packaging and wrapped it for now, but I'll look for something better to retain the heat. I'll probably make a beanie cap for the lid too, as that is quite warm from heat loss. This is starting to get more involved than what I was looking for. Hope the circulating pump speeds up the process and gets part clean quickly.