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| Jasonb:
I have used Liberon "Iron Paste" on a few Cast fireplaces and other odd bits of ironwork, tends to let more of teh bare metal show through than Zeebrite. Has a waxy consistancy much like old boot polish. http://www.axminster.co.uk/liberon-iron-paste-510257 This one I stripped off many layers of paint from http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/jasonballamy/work/PICT0048.jpg |
| PekkaNF:
Our family has been using one commercial stove black, that contains whole lot of graphite, has to mixed well, rubbed, heated to set (or it will stick anything that touches it) and when it cools, brushed loose stuff out. It produces traditional fireplace black color. They sound pretty big objects and you may not want to heat them up, they might contain old paints and stuff, very probably lead, not a good idea to heat. I pretty much just would take away the biggest muck and put them into a display on mesh they had....to show some functionality. I would leave them "dirty", they were used that way. Mild phosphorous accid (easy to find mixture of citric and phosphorous accid mixture is tea ketlle lime rover from grocey store) will produce steel grey you are after, just need to very clean surface first. Pekka |
| Manxmodder:
--- Quote from: Jasonb on July 16, 2016, 02:50:19 AM ---I have used Liberon "Iron Paste" on a few Cast fireplaces and other odd bits of ironwork, tends to let more of teh bare metal show through than Zeebrite. Has a waxy consistancy much like old boot polish. http://www.axminster.co.uk/liberon-iron-paste-510257 This one I stripped off many layers of paint from http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/jasonballamy/work/PICT0048.jpg --- End quote --- Cheers Jason, the description you give of the stuff being 'waxy' is what made me think of mixing clear boot dubbing with graphite. I'm going to give John's olive oil compound a go later today.....OZ. |
| Manxmodder:
Pekka,the gears are already in mesh with each other as they are all still mounted in the original yokes,so no work needed on that front. There is no paint on them,just old grease & oil and no rust at all. I certainly won't be using anything that requires heating them......OZ. |
| Manxmodder:
Olive oil and powdered graphite mix made and applied to top of stove for test. It spreads out nicely and even as a paste when applied with a soft toothbrush,so I'll leave it till tomorrow and give it a light buff with a soft cloth and light the stove and see what I end up with........OZ. |
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