Just bought an old Oliver 3-pt plow. It looks like 2 12s. Anyway, it's rusty and I wonder how to deal with that. Should I use navel jelly on the whole works? I might could sandblast it. And should I paint the pieces separately? What about the parts that wear? Should I oil those? With what? Any advice is welcome.
painting a plow
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Joel_BC
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K15n1 - I remember some of your posts... on the whole, I think you know as much or more than me! Not sure how much good I can do with my advice... But I like sandblasting, because I've got the equipment and it's a remarkable standby technology. And usually pretty fast, and kinda fun. Wear a mask and you breath no dusts - the fumes from naval jelly are harder to keep out of your nose and lungs.k15n1 said:
I watch the TV show American Restoration. Those guys are very impressive pro's and experts, and they sandblast iron and steel all the time. Seems like painting pieces separately (if you've managed to separate the pieces) is the best idea, eh?
I await other's opionions about oiling. I'll bet a whole lot of farmers never did that. Oil or grease would probably collect a lot of soil.
Interesting project.
My Father always oiled/greased all his tools when he finshed using them. For plow shoes, Disk blades and the cutting bar on his bar type mower. he used grease cut to paint type thickness and 'painted' the exposed metal. When he would use them the following spring the first use of the Plow was to cut ditches to help water run off the low spots. the grease/oil would be removed by the mud and the trace remaining stopped the mud from sticking. Gitto for the Disk blades. For the bar mower he would cut around the outside with the bar toward the edge. These cuttings left to to lie provided coverage and any oil acted like Herbicide. When any of these blades were in use they shone like they had been polishedJoel_BC said:
So for Garden Art, blast, paint parts, assemble and clear coat everything. For continued use Remove rust from noncnntact parts the working parts will tend to self clean coat with oil/grease after use.
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Do you recall what type of grease he used? Or what he cut it with?
Engines that sit idle are usually prepared with 2-cycle oil down the spark-plug hole. Do you think 2-cycle oil would work?
What about a vegetable-based oil? I wonder if there's a non-toxic grease based on corn (or some other) vegetable oil.
Engines that sit idle are usually prepared with 2-cycle oil down the spark-plug hole. Do you think 2-cycle oil would work?
What about a vegetable-based oil? I wonder if there's a non-toxic grease based on corn (or some other) vegetable oil.
I am fairly sure there are as i wrote above grease is usually made with veg or mineral oil. If it is any help our dealer claimed that the products we got from him were biodegradable with sunlight {that didn't stop them from being toxic when first applied]k15n1 said:
