HOW TO GIVE YOUR
WEIGHT PLATES A FACE
LIFT
Author & Designer:  Clay Johnson


    Painted Plates

    I painted about 1200 pounds of plates and I figured that I did it at
    under 2 cents a pound using a good quality paint and primer. I had a bunch
    of used Wal-Mart light gray plates so I match the other plates. I used
    Rust-Oleum's hammered paint to match the plates and a good primer.

    The rusty plates:
















    The paint and plates after using my bench grinder's wire wheel:

















    Since it was winter time when I painted the plates, I made a paint
    box and used an old broom stick so I could rotate the plates to paint them:

















    We had one nice day and I painted a bunch outside (I used my jack
    stands and a pipe to paint 45 lb plates before:

















    While I had everything apart, I cleaned up some of my older handles
    (about15 years old!) in my bead blaster...you can see the difference
    between the before and after:

















    Here is a stack of painted 10 pound plates:




























    Some of the final results: