GordoSD said: (quoted from post at 10:27:32 01/29/10) We keep seeing this topic. How to preserve steel in the white, blasted, or whatever?
Part of your restoration plan is obviously epoxy priming the tractor. Well why not just plan ahead?
When the items are ready for this extra "preservative" step. why not just use your epoxy primer?
The guy that does my sandblasting gives me a call on his cell before hestarts. By the time he finishes, I am there with a full spray gun. I plug into his air and I have them done, and back on the trailer headed home in about 30 minutes.
So my answer to questions about what to use as an interim coating is, "If you can't prime it when you finish cleaning it, don't clean it. MikeCA learned this the hard way. :)
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It is kind of weird, we actually were talking about preserving metals that were never to be painted/VERY long term (ie steel in storage). It had nothing to do with tractors or painting or sandblasting. There is a lady on the Miller welding forum that uses it on files and other raw metal tools and that is where the conversation came from. Just kind of wondered what you use more than anything.
[quote:0c0e266b01="CNKS"](quoted from post at 13:26:15 01/29/10) And you are covering all sorts of residual sand, etc with epoxy, particularly on cast. Perhaps it doesn't matter, but I spend more time cleaning the metal after blasting than the operation itself takes.
Ditto, I am hoping there is some serious surface prep between the sandblasting and priming.
When I did my rims (the only "real" painting I have done for myself) I painted them immediately. When we did ammonia wagons we have left them inside for a few days with no problems, but that is NOT a nice finish. We would roll really heavy primer and paint on them.
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