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How you can Restore Antique Iron Beds
Using its intricate scrollwork, detailed spindles and ornamental bed-secure cover, an old-fashioned iron bed may bring back the charm of yesteryear — once you restore it. Before you need to do so, appraise the bed’s length to ensure your modern bed mattress will fit the frame. When the bedframe was built between 100 and 150 years back, it’s possible you’ll need substitute side rails from the store that are experts in antique bed substitute parts. Because antique beds were individually manufactured, no standard sizes for side rails or sizes were established. Most twin-size antique beds were typically 72 inches lengthy, in contrast to today’s twin bed mattress, that is 75 inches lengthy.
Assess and Repair
Check out the bed completely to make sure it’s no rusted-through parts. If you discover any, replace as necessary. Appraise the side-rails, as you may need to replace these combined with the hook-up hardware to suit a contemporary bed mattress. You’ll find the majority of the parts you’ll need for antique beds from a number of online bed restoration stores. When the frame has rusted holes through it, get it repaired with a professional welder. Unless of course you’ve all of the bits of damaged medallions, which you’ll repair having a two-part metal cold-weld product, you will have to replace them. To level the headboard and feet boards, add felt pads towards the bottoms from the ft.
Clean your bed outdoors having a sponge having a slightly abrasive side drizzled with an answer of just oneOr4-cup mild dishwashing liquid mixed right into a gallon of tepid to warm water. Scrub your bed to get rid of dirt, grime and flaky rust. Repeat scrubbing when needed to obtain the surface debris and dirt from the bed. Hose them back and allow it to dry completely.
Rust and Paint Removal
If the bed has rust, paint residue or both, a wire brush attachment on the power drill can remove the majority of the rust and lots of the paint, once you test drive it with an off traffic place to ensure it doesn’t damage the frame. Put on safety goggles, a dust mask and mitts while using the wire brush attachment around the frame. Contain the drill so the spinning wheel scrapes across the frame don’t press the wheel in to the antique iron bed rather, let it “walk” across its surface. To get rid of excess paint, operate in a properly-ventilated area and apply paint stripper take it off after it sits around the metal for around twenty minutes, or as directed through the manufacturer’s instructions.
Wet-Dry Sandpaper
Whenever you can’t make use of the wire brush attachment or it does not get all of the rust off, apply 400- or 600-girt wet sandpaper or perhaps an emery cloth towards the frame to get rid of all excess rust. Dampen the sandpaper first and wrap it round the round frame, holding it tightly while you sand up and lower. Don’t use a rougher sandpaper as it may scratch the frame. You may also sand the frame after taking out the rust and paint. Single-to-1 ratio of vinegar and water applied with extra-fine steel made of woll may also remove excess rust, but it is a untidy job.
The Conclusion
After cleaning and restoring the metal, use a metal primer to the surface. Use more dark primers for dark colors and lighter primers if you are planning to color the bedframe an old-fashioned white-colored. Following the primer dries — usually after about a couple of hours — paint it together with your selected paint color. To have an oil-applied bronze look, spray paint the whole piece having a flat black paint and allow it to dry overnight, so when dry, paint the frame using the metallic bronzing paint of your liking. In case your bed has decorative medallions, you are able to dry brush all of them with gold paint or leaf to ensure they are stick out.
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Making Your Own Off Grid Clothing
Video COMMENTS:
- Donna G: I can’t understand how you can start with a clump of fluff (wool) and turn it into yarn. Even after watching this video! How do you know where to pull the wool from in the pile of fluff. How do you start. How come it doesn’t keep breaking when you are pulling it out before feeding it into the spinner? Plz help me understand. I will. Never do it but I would like to understand.
- 50 shades of green: love this video very much as it reminded me of my Nan as she hand made everything !! every birthday and every christmas from the day we was born up until are 18th birthday we had a new jumper she made !! i really miss that :0( !! look at me i’m crying as i’m typing lol !! thank you
- komer west: Mr Dirt you have the most amazing wife. She is strong knowable and pleasant to the eye. One lucky man you are
- Eliza Raffles: You are amazing!! Wow we take for granted how hard forefathers and foremothers had it. Thank you for sharing this.
- J Hamilton: Love this. Can’t wait until you get the drop spindle video up
- Manda Panda: you are so sweet just started watching your video’s shared like love them xoxox thankyou
- Cathleen de Ontiveros: I would like to see more videos on the spinning. I Have been gathering, processing wool to prepare for spinning, and have a spinning wheel, but have not had time to try it out yet. I teach sewing, art, and make all of my own clothes, and crochet winter wear and afghans too. I love seeing people promote making clothes <3
- The Family Orton: i was hoping to see you do some fiber work soon, lots involved. Thanks
- Carver Man: Would you be willing to trade fiber for products.
- woodsman forlife: Great video, as always!
- Mama Grows: That is a whole lot of steps and a whole lot of specialized equipment to do something a machine can do in no time. Sign me up!!!
- A3Kr0n: I can’t imagine someone making clothes for their entire family like this, but they did. Incredible.
- sewfuntosew11: I recently found two antique spinning wheels at an estate sale/yard sale. $50 for both , it was a great day!
- T. Ruth T: What a lost art. I spin also but haven’t bought some of the other items( I only have a spinning wheel). I don’t ever think you would get back your investrment/time on the finished products…
- christine emerson: Im LDS and living in Maryland. I absolutely love this channel. You provide information that I’m not able to get anywhere else. You are a constant inspiration. Love you!
- loch ness: love watching the spinning video’s ….. something soothing about watching the wool go around and around…. looks like girls worked hard on their pumpkins… glad you found your phone
- Laila Garrett: WOW!! Just wow on how much work you do for the beautiful work you do. If I had an etsy acct I’d look into your shop. I don’t do paypal, had a bad experience.
- Amber Marie in AZ: As a knitter myself, it was lovely to see the process again. Wool and Phoenix are not condusive to one another lol
- Lauren Cudjoe: I enjoyed this video so much it’s in my top 5 of faves from this channel.
- Jojo Crazy Cat: People better learn how to do things the old ways.
Because money and stores may not always exist.
Learning old school skills is needed to survive if the economy shuts down.
It may revert back to the barter system.
And knowing how to make and build many things can make your life sustainable.
