Charming Old Fuel Can Brought Back To Life - Restoration

This week im tackling another restoration of an item that will be on display in my new workshop so it wont be a meticulous restoration process just a fun one to get the can looking good enough to display and be interesting to look at.

So with that being said as usual the first job is a visual inspection and at first glance the can looks in good shape, Im not worried about the lack of pouring spout as this will be on display and the spout wouldn't be fitted anyway.

The first job was to sand blast away all the rust and old paint from the can so that we can see clearly what we are working with. After blasting it was clear that there were a couple of holes in the base that would need to be welded up in order for this piece to be fuel tight again so i got out the mig welder and set it to a nice low setting and welded the holes up and then ground the welds beck down flush again.

I then proceeded to place the can in a bath of warm DEOX C overnight to remove all remaining rust from the can inside and out, one this was done and dried off i then sealed the inside of the tank to prevent any rusting of the steel in the future this was left to set then i moved onto the next stage.

The next stage was the body working stage. I straightened out the handles with a custom made straightening tool then move onto filing any off any defects that i found in the metal. I then laid down a thin layer of body filler to fill the pitting left by the removed rust. Once dried and sanded the can was ready for primer.

I applied and etch primer then 3 coats of high build 2k to give me plenty of material thickness to wet flat back any defects that i found. once this was done i applied a few layers of blue top coat and while this was curing i made the stencil for the ESSO BLUE lettering.

The stencil was applied and painted with a nice vintage cream colour, Once dried the stencil was removed but unfortunately as i had used a top coat to paint over the stencil rather than a base coat the edges didn't come up as clean as i hoped and left me with a few rags but they wont be noticeable when up on its display shelf so i was happy to leave them.

The cap was zinc plated and cured with a blue passivate to give a durable shiny silver finish and finish off the look of the can and that wrapped up this restoration.

I hope you enjoy it and ill see you all in the next video.

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Charming Old Fuel Can Brought Back To Life - Restoration

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