Hi Gentlemen. I bought an old Hearthstone last year that I am not going to be able to use. I would like to clean it up some and take some pics to sell it for a little bit of a profit if I can. I live in VA.
It's a Hearthstone II with the unenameled iron. It's in nice shape inside and out, even seems to have good gaskets, but has not been used for several years, so the inside is a bit scaly (all parts intact and good shape though) and the outside metal parts are fine but could use a little touch of oil or wax to bring them back. Which brings me to my questions.
The inside of the stove appears not to have been cleaned out prior to storage. The metal on the inside has ash on it and some scaliness and a bit of surface rust. The inside of the door (around the outside of the glass) looks a bit rusty/scaly. Even the tool that opens the door is a bit scaly. On old garden tools etc I have oiled them up and steel wooled them, that kind of thing... and I thought maybe a dremel might help on this, but I don't want to make anything worse (worse LOOKING, either) or damage anything. The oil and steel wool thing usually works better on steel and things that are not real "nubby" in their surface yet. The inside of the stove looks a bit "nubby" -- would a wire brush look better or should I just leave it alone?
And on the outside metal parts, (very nice condition but dull-looking) would oiling or using a little wax work well or just make a mess?
I saw one of these stoves with the enameled metal parts go for a ridiculous price on ebay recently... I don't expect anything near that but what the heck, the more I can get for it the closer I will be to being able to get a good efficient new insert that will actually fit in my house! Thanks in advance.
It's a Hearthstone II with the unenameled iron. It's in nice shape inside and out, even seems to have good gaskets, but has not been used for several years, so the inside is a bit scaly (all parts intact and good shape though) and the outside metal parts are fine but could use a little touch of oil or wax to bring them back. Which brings me to my questions.
The inside of the stove appears not to have been cleaned out prior to storage. The metal on the inside has ash on it and some scaliness and a bit of surface rust. The inside of the door (around the outside of the glass) looks a bit rusty/scaly. Even the tool that opens the door is a bit scaly. On old garden tools etc I have oiled them up and steel wooled them, that kind of thing... and I thought maybe a dremel might help on this, but I don't want to make anything worse (worse LOOKING, either) or damage anything. The oil and steel wool thing usually works better on steel and things that are not real "nubby" in their surface yet. The inside of the stove looks a bit "nubby" -- would a wire brush look better or should I just leave it alone?
And on the outside metal parts, (very nice condition but dull-looking) would oiling or using a little wax work well or just make a mess?
I saw one of these stoves with the enameled metal parts go for a ridiculous price on ebay recently... I don't expect anything near that but what the heck, the more I can get for it the closer I will be to being able to get a good efficient new insert that will actually fit in my house! Thanks in advance.
