[TheForge] finish problem

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Clyde:
I declare you master of the rust hustle!

Clyde wrote:
> I rust a lot of sculptures, some tiny, some 25 feet tall. I sold over 950
> last year plus many that I kept for my sculpture park, gave to schools etc.
> All are rusted so I need to rust a lot of stuff fast to keep up.
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> Peroxide alone is not good rust maker. A mixer of a pint of peroxide, a ¼
> cup of salt and a cup of 5% acid vinegar is a good start. If the iron is
> prepared right and the weather is warm and damp I can have a pretty passable
> rust in an hour. Overnight it looks great. 
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> You have to get the mill scale, dirt, paint, etc off. I use sandblasting or
> tumbling or a 10% solution of muriatic acid to get down to the bare metal.
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> After spraying on the mixture I rinse the piece off with a hose, sometimes
> after an hour, sometimes the next morning. It depends on the moisture in the
> air and temperature and the effect you want. 
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> Clyde Wynia
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> http://jurustic.com
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> http://flickr.com/photos/jurustic
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> I was trying to use peroxide to put a rust finish on some iron but it
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> did not work, what did I do wrong?  First cleaned in PH minus then
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> scrubbed with scotch brite pad under clean water got rid of excess
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> water and spray with peroxide.  Nothing happened, peroxide to week?
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> Allen
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> Allen Ortery
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> bluestoneforge at gmail.com
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> 309-368-7967
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