! In 2008 I had 8 little birds in a cage in a room 50 feet from my kitchen. One night we forgot a Teflon coated cast iron enamel frying pan on the stove on low heat. In the morning all 8 birds were dead. The vet declared they died of Teflon poisoning. The canary in the coal ...
At first glance, you won’t be able to tell a porcelain bathtub from its enamel counterpart. But there’s a simple item you can use to determine bathtub types in this situation: a magnet. Since enamel tubs cover cast iron or steel, they’ll be magnetic. So if the magnet doesn’t sti...
Finally, the tools were wiped clean with mineral spirits, primed with a rust-preventive metal primer (we used spray-on Rust-Oleum), and painted with gloss alkyd enamel. The cutting edges on the hatchets were hand-honed on a series of water stones used for woodworking tools. We completed ...