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[Gravity Aided]

The deep south is on my list of places to visit. Cannot wait to hear them talk like that.

Shallow i know and it's not the only reason for wanting to go there i promise.

Louisiana is very pretty, but very rural, and extraordinarily Colonial French. It also still uses the French Civil Code of Law. Guilty until proven innocent. Some folks there do not speak Anglais on a daily basis.

 

[raleighnut]

I once spent a week removing paint from a birds-eye maple table, because factories painted birds-eye maple pieces when they were produced.(1870's? in this case), and I used a paste stripper for antiques and had to use a dental pick to remove paint from all the details. It looked great, and still sits in our old parish church, last time I looked.

Maple with 'Birds Eye' figuring would have been seen as a 2nd rate timber back then.
In England Mahogany was also a low grade wood at the time (poor mans Walnut) it was brought back in ships as baulks of timber used as 'ballast', compare that to how it is looked at today.

 

[summerdays]

What are you stripping ?

Guess... But it's going to takes ages.... Very fiddly!

 

[GM]

Mrs R and her friend Liz did the London ride through the night 100km ride last night. 6hrs. Im hugely proud of her.

Well done Mrs R,

FNRttC to Brighton is only 3 weeks away, anyone up for it?

 

[Hill Wimp]

Guess... But it's going to takes ages.... Very fiddly!

The front gate

 

[Supersuperleeds]

A cool grey morning sat here in the Tuileries. The last seven hours have not been mundane, they have been mind blowingly joyous. We need ti find un petit dejeuner befire heading home

It's cold and grey in Leicester as well

 

[Hill Wimp]

here.

 

[summerdays]

The front gate

Yes... And there is lots of paint to remove, quite a few layers, and I can barely lift the gate, I can't actually carry it. I wasn't expecting it to be that heavy.

 

[hopless500]

The deep south is on my list of places to visit. Cannot wait to hear them talk like that.

Shallow i know and it's not the only reason for wanting to go there i promise.

I went when I was 18. It was pretty weird
(Dad lived in Louisiana)

 

[GM]

Yes... And there is lots of paint to remove, quite a few layers, and I can barely lift the gate, I can't actually carry it. I wasn't expecting it to be that heavy.

I think I'd be inclined to use a blow torch. Have fun!

 

[summerdays]

I think I'd be inclined to use a blow torch. Have fun!

Would that work better on an iron? gate (silver coloured metal exposed and it rusts, not sure how you tell what it is made of).

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Just back from a ride to the rollright stones, 95 miles covered and I'm now knackered.

 

[Puddles]

Yesterday we crabbed here

and some of Maggies friends joined her in a plate of chips....

Today we milked a cow

Drove Tractors & collected bunnies

Laid in the sun....

and crabbed here

 

[Gravity Aided]

Would that work better on an iron? gate (silver coloured metal exposed and it rusts, not sure how you tell what it is made of).
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"White" or cast iron would be a good guess. I used to do ornamental iron between periods of employment,(in the 1980's, often more unemployed than not, despite Mr. Reagans' estimate of the situation) and used a wire wheel on a big, air powered drill for the worst, as this also removed rust, then used paste stripper for metal to do the fine work. But here, sometimes whole porches are ringed in ornamental ironwork. I used to remove all the ironwork, remove paint and clean, then repaint. And I think I charged about $500.00 American for a whole porch job. Some people would use a tank and dip it, nowadays, but I worked on site. A torch could work, but that would take a lot of gas.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I have a great adaption to my Black and Decker tool that seems to do everything. Its a wire wool brush. I used that to strip paint of all the fireplaces in my old house so i could zeebrite them. It was most satisfying.