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Getting the blackness off of metal
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 4:20 pm
by Sir Oswald
I am finishing up my first helm, but it has a layer of blackness that I hate. I have been sanding it off, but it takes a long time to sand a little off. Is there any other way to get this black stuff off? Thanks.
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 4:24 pm
by Klangiron Skullthumpa
If you're talking about the mill scale on hot rolled steel then vinergar works pretty well.
I've also used those scruffy disks you can get for paint stripping to clean it off.
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 4:39 pm
by Sir Oswald
Im pretty sure it's cold rolled steel.
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 5:38 pm
by Egfroth
Sasha has written a step by step procedure for getting rid of the black scale, which he kindly allowed me to put up on my site. Have a look
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Egfroth
"I can hear the word
money from a distance of fifty miles, if the wind's in the right direction"
Major Dennis Bloodnok, Queen's Forty-Third Deserters (retd.)
see my webpage at
www.geocities.com/egfrothos