Lorica Seggie rust prevention and maintence

[Gashford]

Hello all<br>
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Hib raises a good point, I just built a belt this evening and the beeswax treatment and problem came to light when I had to drill a couple of holes in the metal I forgot to do first. The hot metal throws lines of beeswax up as it flies along the metal surface, however I have found that a properly beeswax'd piece of metal only needs a very light/heavy rub and the muck comes off (at least hot metal, dust and mud).<br>
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However building upon what Hib has said, it is important to clean your armour regularly when using any natural methid, otherwise it will cause more problems than it solves. A case in point was a friend that cleaned some of our armour using oil and sand but didn't get all the oil off and didn't do any followup cleaning ... after three days the armour was mucky, stunk and covered in flies ...<br>
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Natural product whilst feeling historic can require more work ... otherwise people wouldn't have invented modern equivalients I guess.<br>
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Hope this helps a bit ... <p></p><i></i>