I just bought a couple of dumbells. I was just wondering if I am supposed to do anything with them (paint them with someting), or leave them unfinished?
Will Rambeau Moderator Reg: 01-25-2003
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Meghan,
You'll find that a lot of the SchH dumbells are treated with a non-toxic oil to preserve the wood. You can usually feel faint oil residules on those dumbells when they're new.
Paint would be a no-no secondary to the possiblity of the dog chewing ( even painting just the dumbell ends isn't a good idea, some dogs in early training try to pick up the dumbell via the ends, I wouldn't take the chance).
Woodworking being one of my hobbies, I would suggest going to a wood working shop and getting a child safe finish for the dumbell. Wood workers now should use gloves when applying finishes because of the heavy metal content in almost all finishes now, including linseed oil.
Olive oil is a good wood preservative for wood that is used in cooking. For example, my family has lots of wooden mortar and pestils from the early 1900s that have been seasoned with olive oil This "seasoning" process preserves the wood, and protects it from the many wet and dry cooking ingredients used in the mortar and pestil. I don't know olive oil would work on the schutz dumbells, but it wouldn't be bad for the dogs coat!
hmmm olive oil sounds interesting, how would I use this, just brush it on? what about the linseed oil, could I do it myself? Where would I find the linseed oil, at walmart maybe? I don't even know if I could find it, don't know what it's called in german, but a lot of the products are in english. the dumbells don't have any residue on them, I'm pretty sure they're totally unfinished.
Put them in a oven at low setting and take them out and rub them with a cake of beeswax . Next step take a piece of rough burlap and rub each one for ten minutes to remove all of the surface wax . beeswax is all natural , the key is to polish the dumbell after the application so that you can not feel the wax to the touch. When your arms and hand hurt very badly then you will be done alot of elbow grease.
According to LEO (dict.leo.org) linseed oil is das Leinöl or das Leinsamenöl.
Most health food stores have food grade linseed oil (I think, not sure about that), and olive oil should be even easier to find.
Forgot beeswax is Bienenwachs. Just be careful because most has other stuff added. I have a tub of beeswax for leather (lederpfledgecreme or something similar, can't remember) but it has other stuff in it.
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k thanks, i dug up the olive oil out of my kitchen cabinet...hubby walks into the kitchen to see me painting my dumbells, he was a lil confused. They look so purdy...I don't wanna use them now! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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