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Paint for Iron Work

There is no production for iron work so efficacious as well boiled linseed oil, properly laid on. The iron should be first well cleaned and freed from all rust and dirt; the oil should be of the best quality, and well boiled, without litharge or any dryer being added. The iron should be painted over with this, but the oil must be laid on as bare as possible, and on this fact depends in a great measure the success of the application; for if there be too thick a coat of oil put upon the work, it will skin over, be liable to blister, and scarcely ever get hard; but if iron be painted with three coats of oil, and only so much put on each coat as can be made to cover it by hard brushing, we will guarantee that the same will preserve the iron from the atmosphere for a much longer time than any other process of painting. If a dark coloring matter be necessary, we prefer burnt umber to any other pigment as a stain; it is a good hard dryer, and has many other good properties, and mixes well with the oil without injuring it. the fluid, in which it gradually sinks. At this period it must be well stirred in, or ground as you would other paint, and it is fit for use.

There may be added any coloring matter that suits the fancy, to be applied in the same manner as other paints, and in a few hours it will become perfectly dry. Another coat may then be added, and so on until the work is done.

This paint is of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a coarse cloth, has little smell, even when wet, and when dry is inodorous. It also possesses the merit of cheapness, the above quantity being sufficient for 57 yards. 2771. Paint for Old Weather-Boarding, or Boat Bottoms. Take 5 gallons boiled linseed oil, 4 gallons raw oil, 1 gallon benzine, and 30 pounds Rocky Mountain vermilion.