Paint for weights

[Cheshire cat]

Hi,

I've got a few Avery 25 Kg weights I use for ballast. I have one or two spare ones so I thought I'd clean them up and see what they look like as ornaments. They've come up well but I wanted to paint them to stop them rusting. My question is what with? Hammerite will look wrong. I was thinking possibly stove paint but what would they have been protected with originally?

[NB Esk]

I primed mine and then gave them a couple of coats of left over floor paint.  Not too glossy, no issues.....?

 

 

[MtB]

 

You realise I imagine, that they a worth about £25 each? So flogging a few would raise some cash should you be so inclined.

 

 

[system 4-50]

The question is, is my ballast worth more than the rest of my boat?  I don't paint them, I keep them in Waitrose large size self-sealing bags which my size of weight fits exactly.

[koukouvagia]

Why bother?  I find the patina quite attractive.

 

[MtB]

3 minutes ago, koukouvagia said:

Why bother?  I find the patina quite attractive.

 

 

I experience the same, when I look in a mirror. 

 

 

[alan_fincher]

2 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

I experience the same, when I look in a mirror. 

 

 

Yep,

Like you, I find a mirror with quite a lot of patina on it enhances the experience of looking in to it.

[Richard10002]

8 minutes ago, koukouvagia said:

Why bother?  I find the patina quite attractive.

 

They go rusty?

[MtB]

Just now, Richard10002 said:

They go rusty?

 

The one in the photo seems to be avoiding rusting quite successfully!

 

But then I suppose being metric, it is probably only about 50 years old, or less. 

[WotEver]

Get some Camelia oil (Axminster Tools) and wipe it over them lightly. At the same time do all your chisels, screwdrivers, planes...

[NB Esk]

36 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Get some Camelia oil (Axminster Tools) and wipe it over them lightly. At the same time do all your chisels, screwdrivers, planes...

Won't prince Charles have something to say about that?

 

 

[Mike Tee]

For the ones I used as ballast trim, I painted with Hammerite Smooth, then glued a rectangle of carpet tile to the bottom to save scratching the engine room floor

[system 4-50]

2 hours ago, NB Esk said:

Won't prince Charles have something to say about that?

 

 

no, he gets the butler to apply the oil...

[David Schweizer]

4 hours ago, WotEver said:

Get some Camelia oil (Axminster Tools) and wipe it over them lightly. At the same time do all your chisels, screwdrivers, planes...

I use Renaissance Wax which I buy from from Yandles.

[X Alan W]

Auto brake caliper paint sticks well without primer

[Cheshire cat]

A few ideas there. Yes, I know they change hands for significant money these days. I struck lucky on Ebay, turned up to collect and the seller had a second and third set so I bought them all for scrap price. They counterbalance the stove, calorifier etc on the boat nicely.

[Cheshire cat]

8 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

The one in the photo seems to be avoiding rusting quite successfully!

 

But then I suppose being metric, it is probably only about 50 years old, or less. 

They were in use by a weights and measures dept or whatever they are called these days. Taken out of use relatively recently allegedly because lifting 25Kg is a health and safety issue!

[AndrewIC]

If they were long weights then I'd suggest tartan paint.

[WotEver]

7 minutes ago, AndrewIC said:

If they were long weights then I'd suggest tartan paint.

And store them on sky hooks. 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2018 by WotEver

[starman]

1 hour ago, Cheshire cat said:

They were in use by a weights and measures dept or whatever they are called these days. Taken out of use relatively recently allegedly because lifting 25Kg is a health and safety issue!

You can say that again! I just hauled about twenty 56lb weights out of our boat (and will be selling some - hint, hint). Plus several hernia inducing ingots of pig iron and some bloody great lumps of concrete kerbstones.?

[Richard10002]

10 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

The one in the photo seems to be avoiding rusting quite successfully!

 

But then I suppose being metric, it is probably only about 50 years old, or less. 

I’ve got 3 or 4 that are going rusty on deck. Planning to get round to painting them in due course, and like the carpet on the bottom idea... ooh err missus!

 

im planning on Craftmaster primer, undercoat, and bilge paint... light grey. 

[Dav and Pen]

Spray them with wd40 and wipe excess off. I spray it over the wood burner every year when it’s out of use in the spring as advised by the installer and it’s in great condition after 8 years.

when we were carrying house coal and bagging it up  the weights were 56lbs we couldn’t lift hundredweight sacks out of the boat without serious damage to the back.

Avery seemed to have the monopoly on coal scales.

David

[NB Esk]

42 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

Spray them with wd40 and wipe excess off. I spray it over the wood burner every year when it’s out of use in the spring as advised by the installer and it’s in great condition after 8 years.

when we were carrying house coal and bagging it up  the weights were 56lbs we couldn’t lift hundredweight sacks out of the boat without serious damage to the back.

Avery seemed to have the monopoly on coal scales.

David

Yes, the name was cast into almost Avery one....

 

 

[Boater Sam]

Its a boat, so black paint and then roses all over, its traditional

[mark99]

Can extreme temp paint Simonize.

 

Bake in oven.

 

Slap of Alkyd varnish over the top.

 

Just done that for the pig iron handle on the stove.

 

Edited November 20, 2018 by mark99