removing rust from stove top lid holes

best way to clean rust around lid holes on a Sweetheart cookstove that was in storage...and then
what should I use to keep the rust away? thanks...I am new to the forum...but old to using
a cookstove.........used to use an old Columbian monster....till she wore out...

Pictures, some of us do not know a lot about legacy coal burning appliances. Those that do do not use computers if you catch my drift.

Too many of those Colunbian Monsters got me in trouble as a youth. --but, looking fwd to pix of your Sweetheart. My old Home Comfort had alot of rust on the porcelain top sections/bread warmers & I used naval jelly & real, real fine steel-wool. But mostly it was just alot of elbow grease--the rust was not deep, mostly surface--again, looking fwd to pix. Is it with or without the reservoir?? Welcome to the Forum Where are you from--there's a place in your avatar for that--Promise, nobody'll steal ya

corgi mom wrote:best way to clean rust around lid holes on a Sweetheart cookstove that was in storage...and then
what should I use to keep the rust away? thanks...I am new to the forum...but old to using
a cookstove.........used to use an old Columbian monster....till she wore out...

I use a wire brushs on an angle grinder to remove rust. Keep the rust away? Use the stove...

dj