Need Some Preservation Help

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DaveinNY

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I dug this 100 year old Quarry tool out of my back yard and would like some help in preservation. This thing is 11 feet long and around 100 pounds. I live in an old Bluestone Quarry town so I'm sure this is related to that industry. I am pretty sure it is blacksmith made. I would like to coat it with something that's long lasting and display it on the outside of my barn as an artifact from the good old days. So any of you Smithys out there have any suggestions as to what I should coat this with to hold down the rust?
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Dave
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Now that is a rock bar! Never saw one that large but 6' ones are common in this part of the world.

Oxpho will convert the rust into----heck, I forgot what it converts to, but it turns black and hard. I don't think you would want to but you can paint over it. I have bought it at the Sherwin- Williams paint store.
 
Check out a product called Loctite's "Extend Rust Converter". It's another product that converts surface rust into a hard black oxide. I use it on post vices, etc. What I'd do is take a wire cup wheel on an angle grinder and get all the big hunky rust off, then spray with Extend and let dry. Works like a champ on vices around my shop.

-d
 
This is just the kind of information I am looking for, I knew I came to the right place.

What's really cool is that there were two blacksmith shops in the neighborhood at the turn of the century, and this could have been made in one of them.
 
There are many a bluestone quarry in the Catskills. Here on the the D&H Canal which was designed to carry coal from PA , the second biggest cargo was bluestone. BTW Canal Street Cutlery in Ellenville is named for this canal .I'm at Lock 69.
 
At the local glass factory, there is about 7-8 of those some bigger than that some smaller, nice find.
 
For another approach, Boiled Linseed Oil (thats the dark stuff that has added metallic driers) makes a very good sealant for old iron. Paint it on thinly with a brush and let dry. I would never strip something like this or use chemical rust reducers; wash the mud off and seal it. I think that is what is called a "Pinch Bar." All purpose lever, for warehouse use too. Raising furniture vaults to get the skids under, etc.
 
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