Remove the handles from the drawers or cover them with painter's tape, if you don't want to paint them. Scuff-sand the entire cabinet, including the drawers, with grit sandpaper to etch the existing paint.
Move the cabinet outside or into a room with plenty of ventilation and set it on top of old newspapers. Put on a respirator and spray the cabinet and drawers with a single coat of metal primer. Let the primer dry for about an hour. Spray on one coat of metal enamel. If you're planning a multi-tone design, this is the base coat.
Let it dry, scuff it with grit sandpaper and spray a second coat. Let the base coat cure for 24 hours, then use painter's tape and masking paper to create a design, if desired. After covering the parts you don't want to paint, spray the exposed areas with a different color of enamel. A few of the photos are favorite photos with text overlays of favorite song lyrics.
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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Like this: Like Loading About The Author. It would be best to remove them, and easiest; but other than that you would need to use masking tape or electrician's black tape.
An Exacto knife might help. The best way is to sand, prime and paint with automobile spray paint in cans. Be careful not to let it run.
I have just inherited my grandparents old metal bedstead. I has been painted with one coat of spray paint. What is the best way to remove the paint without creating a caustic reaction with the metal. What's the best product and how do I go about removing the paint. I want it to go back, as much as possible, to it's original state. To remove the index card holders : first remove the handles usually held on with two nuts inside the drawer's , then remove a metal plate inside the drawer fronts.
This plate slips under the inside top edge and is then pushed forward quite hard to wedge the drawer sides apart , to remove it you might have to push a thin screwdriver blade between it and the drawer front via the handle hole just to get it started. Some handles have integral card holders , this step obviously won't be necessary with those. Re: refinishing the brushed steel effect , try sanding with some grit wet and dry paper wrapped around a cork or wood block , take care to sand in one direction only following the grain that's already there and sand off the edge of the cabinet so you don't get any little swirly marks.
Hello - following on from the bedstead question, I have found a year old metal filing cabinet for hanging files with four drawers and would like to strip it back to the bare steel. I have seen some professionally stripped pieces and want to know if simply sanding will produce the same effect, or does that involve chemical strippers followed by some kind of gloss or polish? Should I give up the D-I-Y and have it done professionally? What chemicals and chemical reactions should I be aware of?
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