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July 21, 2003
Nigel,
What I know from reading and listening to others:
The bare metal can be sealed by applying expoxy primer. Polyester filler /
bondo can be applied on top of the expoxy primer! Since filler doesn't seal
the metal, moisture CAN get through and makes your shiny metal rust again
(even before you started spraying the top-coats...).
Area's that are not completely rust free can be primered with some
rust-stabilising primer / paint (corroless / owatrol) or phosphoric accid
(ospho) before applying the epoxy primer.
Advantage of this working order / method is that wet-sanding the subsequent
surfacer / sandprimer doesn't harm the underlaying metal.
I still have to put most of this in practice....then in let's say 10-20
years (when the Midget is on the road again for quite some time), I'll let
you know if all this effort was enough to preserve the little car a bit!
Cheers,
Eeg.
Eeg.Oberije@... 23580
Posted on July 21, 2003 08:31 AM
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