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29th June 2013, 02:21 AM #1Born old
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What's a suitable finish for a large outdoor brazier?
I'm making a brazier/fire pit, mainly from bits of scrap with a few bits of new merchant bar. The narrower uprights in the photo are the new bits of steel. I'm undecided as to what finish I should use. I'd really like to do a black oxide finish with used oil, but is it at all practical (or even possible) to do with heating small sections with a blow torch?
If it had all been made of scrap I'd have been quite happy to leave it rusty, but the new steel kind of spoils that look. I suppose I could accelerate the rusting by spraying on some acid. Perhaps, as it's going to have a fire sitting in it, it's all academic and whatever finish I put on it won't last too long anyway.
I'm open to any and all suggestions
Thanks,
Graeme
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29th June 2013, 07:42 AM #2Philomath in training
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What would happen if you encouraged a film of rust and then treated with a rust converter to change that into black iron oxide?
You are right though - any paint or finish is likely to burn off, so it's going to have to be left either natural or have a specialty coating. There was a recent post where someone was cleaning up a cast iron fireplace. Perhaps that stuff may last at temperature?
Michael
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29th June 2013, 09:23 AM #3.
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29th June 2013, 12:57 PM #41915 17"x50" LeBlond heavy duty Lathe, 24" Queen city shaper, 1970's G Vernier FV.3.TO Universal Mill, 1958 Blohm HFS 6 surface grinder, 1942 Rivett 715 Lathe, 14"x40" Antrac Lathe, Startrite H225 Bandsaw, 1949 Hercus Camelback Drill press, 1947 Holbrook C10 Lathe.
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29th June 2013, 01:14 PM #5
What about black lead... the stuff that used to be used for fire grates... not sure where you'd get it nowadays?
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Ray
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29th June 2013, 11:09 PM #6Member
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I'd just get some stove paint. Isn't that what a brazier is?
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29th June 2013, 11:10 PM #7
That would be this thread https://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/ca...-paste-171905/.
It was the liberon product. Sounds good but may be expensive here in Oz.
Dean
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1st July 2013, 10:18 PM #8
Heat resistant paint as in'
Stove Bright Paints Australia - High Temperature and Heat Resistant Paint & Powder
or the stuff Supercheap has for painting extractors on cars
White knight makes a paint for BBQs pot belly black or similar name.
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1st July 2013, 10:33 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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2nd July 2013, 10:55 PM #10
To make it a different colour of course! A change is as good as a holiday, or in this case.......... I'll leave that one alone.
On a more serious note just be careful of what you buy as some of these have very serious chemicals released during drying process. I looked at paints for wood kitchen range and changed my mind after reading the precautions. Ok outside I guess.
Dean
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