Salt in Dust

[ray hampton]

tell the city to use either black or white beets juice then, I hope that beet juice are better on your windshield than poke berry bird dropping
I use to see flocks of crows on the streets after a snow storm, they must been consuming the gravel and salt from the snow plows

[Jessica Pierce-LaRose]

Here they're using some sort of brine or something on the highways - does a better job melting I guess, but more importantly, if cars drive over it, it doesn't get thrown off the road surface the way salt does before it starts integrating. Seems like the road are a lot less dusty at the end of the season. In town they still use the rock salt type stuff, though, although in my town it's the green stuff in a lot of areas.

[Greg Portland]

I tried all kinds of oils, waxes, and sprays on my cast iron and had continual problems in a garage. The best thing turned out to be putting down cardboard over a Boeshield'd table (wax was pretty good too). I'm guess the cardboard limited air from hitting the iron and any morning dew would form on the cardboard. No oxygen, no oxidation.

[Tom Vanzant]

TS surface is Boeshielded, gets a thorough wipe-down after use, then is covered with a waxed plywood panel. Hand tools share a cabinet with a foot-square piece of anti-rust drawer liner from LV. No rust problems even in Houston's humidity.