Just joined the cult, let my toasted coindoor sit overnight.

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Any recommendations for coating the door to make it look nice and shiny without spending more than $20?

Any suggestions on temperature? I had an old fish tank setup so I have a small pump circulating the water and a little heater currently set to about 150 degrees, figured it would speed up the process.

Any suggestions, might that be too hot?

As for buffing, I was just using steel wool, what’s a better option?

So what do you use for the wash? I stopped using the Evaporust because when I rinsed off the legs they’d immediately start rusting while rinsing.
I have used the paste but the legs seem to still rust. I’ve got the rustoleolum spray paint now so I’d like to derust, rinse so they don’t rust and then spray them the nice hammertone silver. Any suggestions or step-by-step process descriptions?

I have the PVC tube and to speed up the process I was using a small tank-heater to heat the evaporust to like 140 since I heard it does much better in hot water.
Also how many hours at that temp? I also was using a small pump to circulate the mix, I wasn’t sure if that’s good or bad.