#hardware – Second Use Building Materials and Salvage https://www.seconduse.com Reclaiming Building Materials in the Puget Sound, with Retail Locations in Seattle and Tacoma. Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.4 Breathing life into old hardware – stripping paint and refinishing https://www.seconduse.com/2015/03/breathing-life-into-old-hardware-stripping-paint-and-refinishing/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:56:20 +0000 http://seconduse.com.s167170.gridserver.com/?p=1030 So, be warned, Second Use has gone through a redesign with its look and feel since publishing the guide linked below.  But deep down inside, we strive to be helpful, knowledgeable and make salvage intuitive, accessible and fun.  The tips and tricks are still good, so why throw the baby out with the bathwater?

We put together this incredibly helpful guide a while back.  We hope you can appreciate our earlier branding and learn all about how to take that painted over Eastlake strikeplate, or peeling, multilayered maybe-this-is-japanned escutcheon back to its original glory.

As always, be careful about lead paint! Learn more about the hazards of this paint additive that is common to older paint here.

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