In this week's video, I restore a rusty crowbar that I bought for 5$. The crowbar wasn't in too bad of a state but it needed some love. And since I like shiny things I decided to give it a really nice polish.
The first step was to remove the paint. For this, I used paint stripper but after letting it soak for several hours, not much had happened. So I decided to use electrolysis which not only removes all of the rust, but also all of the paint.
After cleaning the crowbar in soapy water I soaked it in oil overnight. There was damage to the crowbar where a small piece was chipped off, I fixed this by welding it.
The next step was to grind all of the trim lines and pitted surfaces to get an even surface. For this, I used my Dremel rotary tool, a hand file, a mouse sander, and my random orbit sander.
The sanding was very tedious and took many hours, especially tricky was the inside radius where I had to use my mouse sander.
I sanded everything with gradually finer sandpaper up to P600, finishing off with P1200 by hand. After that, I polished the crowbar to a mirror finish.
The inside of the handle was left original, I painted this with black Hammerite paint which gave it a nice contrast with the polished parts.
There were two markings on the crowbar, one was the number 71 which I painted white and the second one was barely visible. I would appreciate it if I could get some help identifying this second marking. Also, I'm not sure what the end with the hook was used for, leave a comment if you know the answer. EDIT: The crow bar belonged to the swedish state telecommunications company and was probably stolen at some point ;)
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