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Exterior brass polish Gypsy Moth 01-19-2008
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Posted by Gypsy Moth on January 19, 2008, 2:38 pm
Any advice for protecting the polish on brass house number (exterior)? I
assumed there would be a product on the market for this sort of application,
but the folks at Ace Hardware (my local gurus) didn't know of any. Krylon
seems a poor idea. What else would work?



Posted by Frank on January 20, 2008, 7:50 am
Gypsy Moth wrote:
> Any advice for protecting the polish on brass house number (exterior)? I
> assumed there would be a product on the market for this sort of application,
> but the folks at Ace Hardware (my local gurus) didn't know of any. Krylon
> seems a poor idea. What else would work?
>
>
I have a clear urethane painted on mine. Holds up reasonably well.

Frank

Posted by dicko on January 20, 2008, 8:55 am
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:38:51 GMT, "Gypsy Moth"

>Any advice for protecting the polish on brass house number (exterior)? I
>assumed there would be a product on the market for this sort of application,
>but the folks at Ace Hardware (my local gurus) didn't know of any. Krylon
>seems a poor idea. What else would work?
>

I used to have to polish my numbers every year. I used any of the
commercial polishes, brasso comes to mind as one of them. They worked
resonably well. Following the polishing I sprayed them with something
specicaly labelled as brass protectant. I think it was just lacquer.

Every year I had to do this.

Until one year I sprayed my nicely polished numbers with gloss
polyurethane. I never polished them ever again as long as I owned
that house.

The downside is that its a bitch to remove the coating if they ever do
need to be polished again.

-dickm

Posted by Norminn on January 20, 2008, 12:56 pm
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>
>The downside is that its a bitch to remove the coating if they ever do
>need to be polished again.
>
>-dickm
>
>
Takes about two minutes soaking in paint remover.

Posted by ransley on January 20, 2008, 10:21 am
> Any advice for protecting the polish on brass house number (exterior)? =A0=
I
> assumed there would be a product on the market for this sort of applicatio=
n,
> but the folks at Ace Hardware (my local gurus) didn't know of any. =A0Kryl=
on
> seems a poor idea. =A0What else would work?

Polyurethane will yellow, Laquer works but the metal must be 70f or it
might dry milky white. An acrilic marine varnish might work well.

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