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Originally Posted by
nurseknitsLaura
on cleaning irons:I use black shoe polish. The paste kind. I use rust converter first, the kind that turns the rust black. I have heard of using stove polish as well, but have never found any to try. I like the machine to not look too new, so i have never repainted irons. If I came across some that had been painted white or another color, I might just paint over them black rather than strip the pint, but so far i haven't had to face that. Laura
Wow Laura, I never thought of shoe polish, but then everytime you dust them or rub on them won't the polish come off? I have only repainted one set of irons and it was for my Wilcox and Gibbs cabinet that someone had painted black and the irons gold! DH sand blasted the irons and we painted them black like they were originally! Liquid Gold works really well to shine up those black irons too! Here are the before and after photos - we re-did the coffin top also, but not in the shot!
Nancy