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dad had this old bench sitting around his house for years and got a
new one for Christmas. It is showing its age but is very comfortable
so he brought it over to my house so I can enjoy it. It is starting
to rust and the wood is starting to decay due to about 10 years of
California sunshine beating down on it. It needs a little TLC.
So I started by spraying all those rusty nuts and bolts with Rust Eater and let it sit a while. It started out OK but once I got to the nuts with carriage bolts on the wood slats (and there are a lot of them 39 total) it got a little tougher. Since the wood is in bad condition 10 of them just spun in the wood and I had a fun time with a large pair of channel locks trying to hold the bolts still and remove the rusty nuts. I spent a little time but not much sanding off some of the rust and flakey paint. I left the wood as is. Then I ran to the local hardware store and bought a quart of Hunter Green Gloss Enamel and stone finish spray paint. I had primer so I primed the metal but it was getting a little windy so I started painting the slats. That old wood sure soaked up the paint. A pair old chairs and a couple 2 x 4's make a decent set of saw horses.
I then went to spray the stone finish spray paint but it was a waste of $7. It sprayed for a few seconds then the tip clogged up. I tried cleaning it out but it was no use. I went back into the garage and grabbed a couple cans of gloss black spray paint. I think it will go well with the Hunter Green.
After the nuts and bolts had been soaking in a container of Rust Eater, I cleaned them off and sprayed the heads with the gloss black paint to match.
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