roofman
Purveyor of fine English buckets and mops
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Have acquired the above and in the middle of refurbishing it for winter dutys..it was left outside for 2 years so is pretty red which i am cleaning with a wire cup wheel in the grinder and its coming up nice, what i want to know is whats the best treatment for making it "stove black"
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Yes me too, had solid fuel stoves for over fifty years, haven't seen Zebo Zebrite for years now but Stovax do a similar product.Zebrite is a name I remember from ye olden dayes
This sort of Finnish is what i am trying to achieveZeebrite changed its name to Hotspot. No idea why. If I'm painting a steel stove I use calfire satin black. They also do a metallic one and flat black. If I'm doing a cast stove, I prefer my own mix of powdered graphite and linseed oil made into a paste and rubbed in. It gives a lovely grey sheen, takes a few minutes to do and lasts at least a year.
Glad to be of service. If you haven't got linseed, WD-40 works too. Scrub it in with a wire brush or even a scourer and it'll come up glistening silvery grey, I much prefer it to black and the graphite stops rust dead in its tracks.This sort of Finnish is what i am trying to achieve
One more question please...where can i find this graphite dust?Glad to be of service. If you haven't got linseed, WD-40 works too. Scrub it in with a wire brush or even a scourer and it'll come up glistening silvery grey, I much prefer it to black and the graphite stops rust dead in its tracks.
Can't remember now, it's so long since I bought it, but google blacksmith's graphite and you should find it. I think a kilo tub was about a tenner but probably gone up since then. Blacksmith's is relatively cheap because it's not quite as fine as some, not that you'd notice, it's like grey talcum powder!One more question please...where can i find this graphite dust?
You obviously don’t need it then, Give you a fiver?I just checked back through my emails and found the company I bought it from but they appear to have closed down. Tried googling blacksmith's graphite and got nowhere useful either, but search for powdered graphite and the first hit is a company called inoxia or something similar that looks very useful. Half a kilo will last you years. I bought a kilo ten years ago probably and I've still got half of it. At least it doesn't go off!
You know as well as I do that as soon as I get rid of it I'll need it!You obviously don’t need it then, Give you a fiver?
Central heating pipes where they go through beams is another use. Stops them squeaking when they heat up. Guitar and mandolin tuners is yet another good use. In fact why don't all of us have a tin that we use daily?The graphite is also good for brushing or puffing a bit on the ways of a lathe before oiling it up . Another use is to powder with a small puffer bottle all manner of keys & into the key holes with it so it lubes the friction surfaces inside the lock