I have a couple of metal brackets off the wifes mobility scooter that have gone rusty. Getting the rust off will be easy, but how should I paint them after
Jim
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10 years ago
Painting Metal ?
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10 years ago
Hammerite smooth or treat them as a car bit and get the undercoat and colour of choice from a car parts display of aerosols.
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10 years ago
Some form of zinc based stuff and a top coat of almost anything seems to work on most metal.
Brian
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10 years ago
need a good primer first ... or etch blast to bare metal. Then depends on longevity.
2 coats of Smoothrite applied in same day would be OK- Vote on answer
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10 years ago
I've found a decent primer is if anything more important than the top coats. So after de-rusting, give it a good scrub, rinse in clean water and dry. Then use an etch primer like POR 15.
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10 years ago
POR15 is neither an etchant or a primer.
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10 years ago
Ahh. Meant U-Pol. Had just read an e-mail flyer from a car company mentioning POR 15. ;-)
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10 years ago
:o)
YMYA.
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10 years ago
Isn't U-Pol the distributor of fibreglass fillers and talc-based fillers, rather than an etch primer distributor?
Oh they seem to have expanded their range and now do primers. Live and learn.
Do they still work out of the same skanky office block that's just around the corner from the home of that silly bugger Bloater's step mother in Totteridge or is it Whetstone at that point?