STOVE BLACK
What is stove black ? A paint,polish or stain.I know it is used for woodstoves.Do you spray it on ? Brush it on ? Do you have to heat it to cure it ? Does it rub off easy ? I am looking for something to refinish old tools.I a trying different things to get the finish I am looking for.
EvilDr235
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I have used spray paint type wood stove paint on motorcycle exhaust pipes on several occasions. Scuff the chrome with a die grinder and rough scotchbrite pads and spray on. It does cook in, and smells pretty bad the first time it gets hot. But it's made for rough surface cast iron stoves, and is pretty easy to scratch (at least on smooth surfaces) if it gets bumped hard enough. If the old tools you are refinishing are wall hanger displays it will work as good as any spray paint, I guess. But for tools you are going to use, just wipe them down with an oily rag and wipe them dry. I would have to think that the stove paint will end up coming off on your hands if you are thinking about using said tools, even if you bake it on. 0 -
It's a paint. Heat does cure some types I've used.
If you want to coat old tools, most oldsters used boiled linseed oil. It dries to an amber semi-permanant coat.0 -
I use it on my fire place insert. It keeps it looking new. 0 -
I've used a paste in the past, it's rubbed on with a dampened cloth.
It air dried but I'm sure the heat hardened it.0 -
I will displaying old tools.They will not be used.I want something thin with a flat or semi gloss finish.Some of the tool makers names are very finely stamped on the tools and I don't want to cover that up. I need to try several different things to find out what looks good to me.Some of the tools will be just polished steel with maybe a automotive type wax to ward off rust.I picked up a wrench that dates to 1868.I like wrenches and old tools with the makers name on them or a special look to them.Hmmmm,black shoe polish.
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quote:Originally posted by EVILDR235
What is stove black ? A paint,polish or stain.I know it is used for woodstoves.Do you spray it on ? Brush it on ? Do you have to heat it to cure it ? Does it rub off easy ? I am looking for something to refinish old tools.I a trying different things to get the finish I am looking for.
EvilDr235
Look into black oxide finishing for your tools. I believe it is a chemical process that works on iron and various steels. If the tools are chrome plated, I believe that they'd have to be bead or sand blasted and then chemically etched to accept the treatment. No expert here at all but any of the tools I own that are black oxide stand up very well to abuse and the elements.0 -
It is a black paste that you put on your stove (and possibly flue pipes) just to make everything look nice and black for a while. I put it on with a rag. 0 -
Use a gun oil, RemOil, with the finest steel wool to take off the surface rust, then wipe the tool with an oily rag until no rust appears on it. Follow that with a rubbing of linseed oil. This is the method used by the original owners of vintage tools. If you paint them or coat them, the collector value is affected. Sooner or later, if you collect old stuff, you are going to want to trade or sell something that you have in order to get something that you want. It's always best to leave things as original as possible. 0 -
Just got done paintin' my Dad's BBQ pit.One of those made out of a 250 gal. butane tank on wheels.
Started with a half a can of some off-brand stove paint that got about half of it covered.BTW,I'm sprayin' it with a paint gun.
Looked ok,but when I went to get another quart,all I could find was Rustoleum and it went on MUCH better,covered better and dried to more of a satin or semi-gloss instead of the normal flat-black finish that the little bit cheaper brands do.[;)]
Looks a lot better in my opinion.
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Another thing to look at is trappers black.
I have a quart of it and you mix it with gasoline then dip your traps in it.
I will post a pick of it later.0
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