Hiya Folks,
Since getting the Letter Box, we have had a couple of distractions with Sondra's RR Light setup, digging for old signs and the wheeling and dealing on some old CH lights. We are waiting on parts for the RR setup, hopefully those will arrive tomorrow and getting the CH lights is still two Saturdays away.
So our attention is back on the Letter Box.
Shortly after we acquired the box, we started removing the paint.
We found several coats of the Red, White, Blue with Yellow underneath which may have been some kind of primer and the old Army Green below that and an original primer of red lead on the cast parts.
After removing most of the paint chemically, sandblasted and treated with a rust inhibitor primer.
This cast metal is somewhat porous and even sandblasting did not remove all the red lead.
Two coats of rattle can primer on most of the parts.
Have one piece that we need to drill out the old machine screws and rethread the holes. Hope to do that later today.
We have a high chance of rain the next couple of days, so the parts will be put away which will allow the primer to cure some before putting the Dark Forrest Green paint on prior to assembly.
Cheers!
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