Thread: Show us your.... Arken Flarken.

WOW Mitch,, thats a SERIOUS Arken ****en!!!

Whats the next level up from Arken?,,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

WOW Mitch,, thats a SERIOUS Arken ****en!!!

Whats the next level up from Arken?,,,

F-Arken Heavy

She sure has some gravity. Not really something I'll take camping, like the gas cylinder style aarkens.
If I need to move it around the yard, I think I'll just roll it.

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

She sure has some gravity. Not really something I'll take camping, like the gas cylinder style aarkens.
If I need to move it around the yard, I think I'll just roll it.

Notice it is "ribbed for her pleasure "', .....let her roll it .

No such thing if you own a set of number stamps.

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

Today, I made an Aarken-Faarken

Any idea what paint / coatings people are using on their aarkens?
I'm going to buff the rust off with a wire cup brush, then was thinking of hitting it with an oil or something to keep the rust at bay.
Can these be seasoned like a cast iron skillet somehow? ie rub them down with vegetable oil, penetrol, sump oil or something to give it a black oxide like finish?

I'm not too chuffed with the engine enamel that I used on the rocket stove I made. It didn't really hold up as well as I'd hoped, and it was supposedly good for 500Celsius.

There is pot belly black but most of that these days is just a high temp paint. Neighbours when I was a kid used to rub something into theirs with a cloth every week and kept it looking great, but no idea what it was.

Seasoning it like a cast iron pan will work but unless you do it every time you use it and keep it out of the weather, it will still rust.

The paints only seem good to 500 degrees max so thats welk below a dull red that I manage to get mine up to when it's really hammering, but would do for milder use I suppose

Looked up a SDS document on a 'POT BELLY BLACK' product. Seems like it's approx 75% turps, carbon black, and a few other 'non hazardous' ingredients.
Carbon black is a product of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons, so would be present in used motor oil (along with a heap of heavy metals). Probably a moot point for a brake drum which was probably running asbestos liners for most of it's life!

I think any other oil based product which will deposit an amount of carbon into the steel pores would be a good bet. For the non-hazardous inclined, I think a veg based oil would be cheap and effective.