RUSTING OF RUBBISH CANS
Necessary and not decorative receptacles in the home are the rubbish cans. In spite of care, liquids find their way into these receptacles, and the first thing you know leaks develop. On examination you find the bottom pierced with pinlike holes. It is not water so much as vegetable acids which attack the galvanised metal and ruin the bucket.
The inside surfaces of new buckets should be brushed with a solution made by dissolving a half-pound of blue vitriol (copper sulphate) in one gallon of water—the vitriol is cheap, and may be obtained at any drug store. This solution will deposit on the surfaces a coating of black copper oxide—a granulated surface to which paint or varnish will readily adhere. After washing and drying the bucket, two coats of good waterproof asphaltum varnish should be applied. This is dark brown in colour. Given this cheap and easy treatment the bucket or can will- last for years. Handles should be given a coat of white enamel —it will make handing more pleasant. Your initials and address painted on the outside will save confusion.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 12
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