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Nickel frame restoration tips

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Rickman Pete:
How would you recomend applying it. Warming wax. Warming frame or just rub it on n rub it in

Woodside:
Ankor wax would possibly be a good product for what you are after...

Moorey:
The trouble with just beeswax is it really needs to be applied to quite hot metal for it to penetrate the steel whilst the structure is quite open at a molecular level. Mix equal parts beeswax, boiled linseed oil and turps and it will penetrate far better if you are doing it cold.

matthewmosse:
Or just buy beeswax furniture polish which is pre thinned with turpentine to ease application. Best done on a hot day, so a second coat next summer I geuss. For blacksmithing you just heat the ironwork in the fire and apply a stick of solid wax which spreads out really easily and just flows over the surface. You can use candle wax on a hot day which is what I did after rebuilding my dads tractor sawbench, no point in painting the table top as it's meant to be very slidy for wood to travel on it easily, no small order for something so old and pitted but I really didn't want to replace the deck as well, there was hardly any original metal left after attacking the structural rot. Never ever want to see  another, it was bent in evry dimension and rotted through. The wax is quite good as it fills any pits smooth and stops any further rusting.

Moorey:
Plus the bonus of been able to ride around smelling like a chest of drawers ;D

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