My chain went from a stiff piece of crap and was transformed into a super slinky snake chain that was surprisingly new feeling.
I then turned on the ol' wire wheel and ran the chain back and forth to brush off almost all of the surface rust. Nothing like swiping your fingertips along a super fast spinning wire wheel while trying to hold onto a slippery chain. =]
Mission complete! The chain reborn! If you can't wait for a new chain to come in the mail take it from me, you can restore most ANY chain you have without so much work. I hate waiting and it's fun to make things work again. As long as it's made out of some metal alloy you can almost always bend it back of resurface it or weld it... anything. Ahhh they don't make em like they used to.