Very cool, I might try that.
It's been a busy week and I guess this fork has been soaking for 5 days now. I first noticed a bit of liquid had leaked from the 1mm vent hole on the bottom cap. The white silicone I'd sealed it with was leaking and there was a puddle under the pan beneath it.
I took out the first fork, drained the liquid from the tube & removed a little crap from the bottom. Then swapped the leaky end cap with the better one, placed the tube back in the pan like before, inserted the other fork and refilled with the same liquid, and topped it off a little from the jug.
I'll check it often for worry of all the liquid draining out.
I dried off the de-rusted fork and popped out the dust seal just as Ballbearian said, if both dust seals are this nice I'll reuse them.
I cleaned out the chrome tube with a paper towel then leaned the de-rusted fork next to the soak-tube & poured a little Evaporust in there, hopefully it'll do some good work in there, I'll top it off if any evaporates away.
A few crappy pics:
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