Tea Table

Clean the rust and dust.1I used a sand paper (P2) and went few times on table, making sure to remove rust and paint chips. When I washappy and could not see any more paint chips hanging out. It was ready for step 2. This step toke me less than10 minutes but that is because the table was in a better shape than it originally looked.

Close the gaps between the metal table and the wooden bottom. I made a mistake here and rush the process (Donot do that like me, I wont do the same mistake again and rush this step). I used a wood filler and fill thegaps, I misjudge and left few gaps (in few steps I will regret it). Waiting for it to dry (toke the worst caseand waited for 24 hours). Unfortunately I dont have pictures from this step.

The main event/course! Few words about the resin I was very worry about mixing them after I read and saw fewvideos on the internet, saying that is very important to mix them right and for a long time. I guess there aremany types of resin and I bought one that was very easy to use. 2 jars of agent A and agent B. Mix them togetheruntil you see a consistence liquid (or for about 5 minutes), it toke me less to get the wanted results. I used aduct type and wrapped the table few times (later on, I found out it was a mistake). I used a beer bottle capsthat I collected and selected the ones which were in best condition and the most level. You will notice thatsome of them are written, this beer caps are my own beer (I am a home brewer), While puring the resin in thetable I found out that the resin is removing the waterproof marker I used to write on the caps. I quickly foundreplacements for this caps and covered them with finisher (the same one I used on the table after painting thetable), waited as long as I could to let it dry and put it in the resin before it will dry. It did its job andprotected the written on the caps. One more thing I saw during this step, I put the caps before I poured theresin and the caps started to travel. If you want to avoid it, put the resin up to the same level or at least75% of the cap height and only than place the caps where you want them to be. Do not be afraid to push the capsdown, a little bobble of air will come out and it will secure the cap in place. This step toke about a week ofwork but than I didnt calculated the amount of resin I needed and always bought it in pairs.Remember that I used a duct type??The moment the resin start to push the duct type, it created gaps between the duct types and the table where theresin poured out and start leaking all over.How did I deal with that?The simple way, I just tried to get thus gaps closed until the resin got a little harder (luckily again, it wasin only one small place). Remember that I didnt closed all the gaps in the wood-table? Well, as you probablyexpected it started to leak from the bottom too (luckily only from 2 small places). You can use a vaseline toclose this gaps. I used it to closed the bottom gaps and it did its job, now I should have to remember to cleanit after I am done (I didnt...)