I'm building a wood burner for my garage out of a gas bottle and am wondering what the black coating is that log burners use.

I remember my grandma buffing the cast iron fire many years ago with some thing to make it black but don't know what it is.

Anyone know what it is??

Ta,
Steve

B+Q sell a "barbeque black" paint.
Should do the job nicely....

It's called stove black, or stove polish.

http://www.stovesite.co.uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=360&product=STOVAX+BLACK+GRATE+POLISH

Don't know whether it'll work on a gas bottle though.

The stuff your granny used probably contained quite a lot of powdered lead in some kind of grease

Zebrite stove blacking.

Looking forward to sitting in front of the woodburner with a large Talisker and the dog tonight

Nick

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Zebrite stove blacking.

Looking forward to sitting in front of the woodburner with a large Talisker and the dog tonight

Nick

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Originally posted by nstrug
Zebrite stove blacking.

Looking forward to sitting in front of the woodburner with a large Talisker and the dog tonight

Nick

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Is "the dog" a euphemism for your OH

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I would just use a rattle can of black stove paint.
- You cang get it in tins, but i juse the rattle can. Matt usally as its hides dents! £5-10

Just it for the steamboats funnel most spings to hide the last years rust and battle scares.


Daniel

I've a gas bottle with no valve in sat behind the garage to do the very same, please post some pics when you're done, might spur me on.....

I like the one here with the VW cylinder as the flue neck....

I'm 80% of the way through building a wood stove (with oven compartment) at the moment and I'm using a Plasticote BBQ spray can. I've seen the gas bottle wood stoves before, they're great

The stove I made used to glow red hot and no paint wanted to stay on! It was designed to burn engine oil but it would eat anything you stuffed in it!