Won't work for a tailed apprentice or a shopwide rust attack if caused by acid
fumes, but I've found if I store my tools in something organic, the storage
media seems to prevent rust.

I've had good luck with wooden toolboxes, cut-off legs from denim pants, even
cardboard boxes. I use cotton pillow cases over my reloading tools, too.

YMMV, Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA
---- Michael Blair  wrote: 

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There are a lot of things one can use before plunking down $35 for
camelia oil.  My choice is $5 a pint mineral oil. Wipe it on, then wipe
with a dry cloth.  The way tubes on my old ShopSmith got this treatment
and sat outside for two years under a box, and two winters didn't put a
speck of rust on it.  It doesn't gum up and get all over your wood used
this way.  It's how I protect the cooper's tools at Sutter's Fort --
they sit out in an open to the elements room 365 days of the year.  They
get the treatment after the first rain, and that takes care of them
until the next year.