Re: (ET) painting, using Extend - galvanizing

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

On 8 Jun 2006 at 15:25, brianbs juno com wrote:

> I say buy the new boxes and take them to one of those truck "spray in 
> liner"
> places and have the insides coated.

I did this with the battery boxes on one of my road EVs.  It worked great. 
 
I think they charged me about half or two-thirds of what they charged to 
do 
a typical midsize pickup bed.

I wanted to repeat the process with my just-sandblasted mower deck a 
couple 
of years ago, but I couldn't find a bedliner shop around here willing to 
do 
it.  They all said it wasn't worth their time.  I finally found one that 
would - but they said their material came in packaged quantities 
sufficient 
to do a large pickup bed, and they'd be wasting most of the package, so 
I'd 
have to pay the regular pickup bed price.  No deal.

I ended up using epoxy primer and urethane catalyzed (hardened) enamel.  
It 
seems to be holding up OK so far, knock on wood.  

BTW, the first time I refurbished a deck, I cheaped out.  I used a grinder 
instead of sandblasting (what a miserable job).  Then I sprayed on 
Rustoleum 
primer and some of that cheapo appliance "epoxy" paint.  It started 
rusting 
again in less than 2 years.  That was a waste of effort.

I hope to find time to re-do that one this year.  I'll get it sandblasted 
this time, and I may try POR-15 on it.  Or maybe I'll do as as Harry 
Landis 
suggests, and try hot dip galvanizing.  If I do that, maybe I'll follow 
with 
the urethane enamel.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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