[fire911]

I have a very heavy metal desk for sale.
This one won't fall apart when you move it.lol
50.00

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This post has been edited by fire911: 07 March 2012 - 08:44 AM

[fire911]

Okay.I know somebody wants it.

[Power Lineman]

May I recommend you do a little research on it. My father in law just refurbished one similar to yours, turns out hey are wort a LOT of money.

Check this out:

Vintage Desk

Check ebay too, just search "tanker desk"

This post has been edited by Power Lineman: 10 March 2012 - 10:02 AM

[Go BLUE!]

If I still lived in PC I would be picking this up today - honestly you may want to take this down, or raise your asking price. I was looking for one like this for my workshop - I couldn't find one for under 500 bucks, in worse shape then the one you have from the pictures

This post has been edited by Go BLUE!: 10 March 2012 - 01:53 PM

[ButterflyLion]

Power Lineman, on 10 March 2012 - 09:59 AM, said:

May I recommend you do a little research on it. My father in law just refurbished one similar to yours, turns out hey are wort a LOT of money.

Check this out:

Vintage Desk

Check ebay too, just search "tanker desk"

Their website says it is a "painstaking process." The top of the desk in the photo is really glossy. I see the description says it has an "acrylic laminate top." I wonder how hard it was to replace that. They restore all the different metals.

[fire911]

OMG!!! Rethinking here!!!

[ivylove]

Power Lineman, on 10 March 2012 - 09:59 AM, said:

May I recommend you do a little research on it. My father in law just refurbished one similar to yours, turns out hey are wort a LOT of money.

Check this out:

Vintage Desk

Check ebay too, just search "tanker desk"

This one in the pic in your link is beautiful! What a wonderful idea. I bet fire911 could get some black metal spray paint, paint it, and get a piece of glass cut to fit the top and be able to sell it for much more. I think there is a guy on pcom that sells and cuts glass.
Or someone might want to buy this desk and do this themselves.

[Go BLUE!]

ivylove, on 10 March 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

This one in the pic in your link is beautiful! What a wonderful idea. I bet fire911 could get some black metal spray paint, paint it, and get a piece of glass cut to fit the top and be able to sell it for much more. I think there is a guy on pcom that sells and cuts glass.
Or someone might want to buy this desk and do this themselves.

Oh God please don't. These need to be restored by professionals. Just sell it as is to someone that will enjoy it as is or get it restored professionally.

[Just thinkin' hard]

We have a tanker desk. They are extremely heavy and bulky. Oldest desparately wanted ours in his room. He had to watch several youtube videos to figure out how to get it apart. Quite amazing for the parental types. But, he did it. And, he love it - they are alot deeper than most desk so he can actually spread out all of his school stuff and get some work done.

[ButterflyLion]

Martha Stewart had some old metal furniture painted by an auto body shop:

http://www.marthaste...l-furniture-101

[ButterflyLion]

This website has information on restoring metal desks and mentions an article in a back issue of Martha Stewart's Living:

The May 1999 issue of Martha Stewart Living has a good article about restoring vintage metal furniture, with a few before and after photos. That article says you can use rubbing compound and a coat of wax to spruce up the existing paint and put new glides on the legs, rollers on the drawers and install a new top surface. If you choose to change the color of a piece, according to the Martha Stewart article, you can choose to have your metal furniture wet-coat painted (this is done at an auto-body shop with a high-powered spray gun) or powder-coat painted (involves applying a very fine, dry pigment to an electrically charged object and then baking it in a large oven). Before either method can be used, a professional should strip the old finish by bead-blasting it with tiny plastic pellets, according to the M.S. article. Most of the pieces shown in the Martha Stewart feature were ...

http://www.finishing.com/261/76.shtml

The article from Martha Stewart Living can be read here:

http://pastpresentfu...ress/index.html

[fire911]

Wow.Had no idea how much these could be worth.