Toleware Paintover advice

[Onefineday]

I recently picked up these cans on ebay on a buy it now. . The one can the person tried to clean himself it would appear the paint used for the hearts and other decorations is much tougher than the black paint is. Has anyone else encountered this with toleware paintovers and if so what did you use to remove the tougher paint?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290710471698?ss ... 1439.l2649

[oldindiapaleale]

The cone areas look different to me. Maybe different brands. Acetone works wonders with careful application.

[ronsmall]

That's funny, my experience with that design was that it was always a Cardinal from Scranton. I guess they did Old Reading that way too. Those heavier detail areas will also come off with acetone, but it takes an awful lot of careful work with a Q-tip

[Onefineday]

The cone areas look different to me. Maybe different brands. Acetone works wonders with careful application.

Your right about the cones being different at the very top it's a little thinner. Also the unrubbed cans the rims are slightly thinner, the bottom of the one that was
rubbed is silver and not gold like to Old Reading, and the seams on the unrubbed cans look to be soldered seams as opposed to a 5 tooth seam on the old reading. It is very likely the other 2 cans are Cardinals. If so is it worth going through the trouble to rub them out?

Also what Cardinal is usually found under these, the one that's $75 in the book or the $150 variation?

[mybrotha]

I had two and one was a cardinal and the other a Gibbons

[mybrotha]

I should add that I made an epic mess of them with paint remover!!!

[willssoda]

Anyone know how to remove the paint from these babies?

[Longopener]

Rubbing compound is not a good option as brushed on paint is of varying thickness. I've always used acetone or paint thinner. Depends on the kind of paint they used. Whites always were the biggest pain and rarely came off

[canman65]

zip strip...

[fiat128]

What the heck is a "laundry sprinkler"? I had no idea those were sold as a product by some company, I thought they were all craft projects, like the popsicle stick lampshades.

[CMD]

What the heck is a "laundry sprinkler"? .

I beleive housewives used them while ironing

out

Dan

[Candog]

In the early days of electric Irons there were no water reservoirs in the Iron by which to produce steam. Women would use a sprinkling device to sprinkle water on the clothes then use the Iron on the sprinkled clothes to produce steam. The heat from the Iron would evaporate the water leaving them neatly pressed. My mother did this and I remember watching her sprinkle the clothes using a Pepsi bottle with a sprinkler on top.

"Hint's from Heloise" showed women how to paint an empty beer can and put designs on them to create their own sprinklers. They would buy the tops at the hardware store.

There were all kinds of Cone top cans used. I have a Cardinal, Yuengling, Rolling Rock, Little Dutch, 2-Duquesne's, and Schmidt's on my shelf that are paint-over sprinkler cans. I just bought another one that turned out to be a Krueger, but the paint will not come off. I don't know what they used, but it is tough as nails. So acetone will not remove everything.

Beware of conetops that were painted over and used as fishing line bobbers. Typically they rusted from under the paint. If they show any rust on top at all, they are rusted underneath.

[willssoda]

Great info. Thanks. Can you share your method of paint removal? Thanks!

[jinsequa]

Too funny. .....now I know what the one I have was for. I took the paint off of one of these that I got at Goodwill for a buck in the bargain bin. Had the colorful chicken type painting all over it. It turned out to be Nice Spokane Bohemian Club 154-8 mostly covered in a water based (?) paint that came off easily in warm water and soap (to my surprise). A small white area turned out to be a much tougher oil base that I never truly ever did get off completely for fear of damaging the rest of the can that came out mint.
Eric

[willssoda]

Can you show us a pic? Thanks

[jinsequa]

In looking at the can there is still some yellow on the N in Bohemian, and the oil based white paint doesn't photo well because it is mostly on the white of the label. You can see where my attempts to remove it started to remove paint around the N and the B. (I like to think I didn't know ### I was doing when I found this 25 years ago and tried to clean it up)
Eric