How to finish cannonball found last week. Gemplers?

[Tigerdude]

It will rust up if I stop here. Thinking about gemplers rust converter. What do y’all think?

 

[Tigerdude]

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It will rust up if I stop here. Thinking about gemplers rust converter. What do y’all think?

 

[traveller777]

If you use gemplers let us know the outcome. I always hot wax larger iron relics.

 

[Ghost of Forrest]

I always warm up, then heavy black shoe polish, let cool and buff.

 

[Sandog]

If you use gemplers let us know the outcome. I always hot wax larger iron relics.

What kind of wax?

 

[Sandog]

Cool piece. Is that a fuse hole? Don't know much about cannonballs obviously.

 

[Tigerdude]

Cool piece. Is that a fuse hole? Don't know much about cannonballs obviously.

Yes that’s a fuse hole.

 

[traveller777]

What kind of wax?

Just clear parrafin. Walmart jas it but I bought online.

 

[Sandog]

Just clear parrafin. Walmart jas it but I bought online.

Thanks. Have 1715 iron artifact to protect.

 

[traveller777]

Thanks. Have 1715 iron artifact to protect.

Have you ever done hot wax?

 

[Sandog]

Yes that’s a fuse hole.

Thanks Tigerdude. LSU? Detroit? Maybe Auburn, lol?

 

[traveller777]

In case you have not done hot wax before, here is the method this guy uses. Basically what I do. Very important to monitor temperature and not get too hot.

 

[Sandog]

Have you ever done hot wax?

Assuming that's not a personal question, no I haven't. Seems to me that it would be of benefit to slightly warm up the iron as well as the wax so it would kind of flow in to all the nooks and crannies? Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread. Unless maybe it helps with the original question.

 

[traveller777]

Assuming that's not a personal question, no I haven't. Seems to me that it would be of benefit to slightly warm up the iron as well as the wax so it would kind of flow in to all the nooks and crannies? Sorry, don't mean to hijack the thread. Unless maybe it helps with the original question.View attachment 2035105

Watch the video I sent. More to it than that. Be careful.

 

[Sandog]

Watch the video I sent. More to it than that. Be careful.

Thanks again.

 

[Tigerdude]

Thanks Tigerdude. LSU? Detroit? Maybe Auburn, lol?

Mais LSU!

 

[Tigerdude]

Mais LSU!

As I await final determination, i may do nothing if it doesn’t rust up too bad

 

[DigToChina]

As I await final determination, i may do nothing if it doesn’t rust up too bad

And if it does, then you’ve lost a little more of the relic… You might be right but if you’re wrong, what’s the cost?

I followed that same video Traveller posted and worked like a charm. Just go to the thrift store and get the pot big enough for the relic and order enough wax. You need way more wax then you think to cover the relic but once you are done and remove the relic, the wax hardens again and you can keep until you find something else worthy.

That cannon ball was a great find btw

 

[traveller777]

And if it does, then you’ve lost a little more of the relic… You might be right but if you’re wrong, what’s the cost?

I followed that same video Traveller posted and worked like a charm. Just go to the thrift store and get the pot big enough for the relic and order enough wax. You need way more wax then you think to cover the relic but once you are done and remove the relic, the wax hardens again and you can keep until you find something else worthy.

That cannon ball was a great find btw

I use a large canning pot for most of my relics. It has a wire basket in it you can put the relic in and pull it up out of the wax with ease. Works like a charm. For my relics.
But I do mine. You do whatever you want with yours. I do not want my stuff to rust up again.

 

[Gare]

After i clean mine i spray them with a clear thin coat of varnish