Re: (ET) ET Deck Painting & Rust Converting

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

I can decisively report that hardware store "epoxy" appliance spray paint 
isn't of much use.  I used a grinder and metal etchant, then primed and 
painted my R36's deck with it.  The rust was poking through a couple years 
later.  Currently the paint is peeling off in sheets.  

I plan to have it sandblasted, and may try two-part catalyzed acrylic 
enamel 
this time.

A thought - someone mentioned filling in the pits with Bondo.  I'm a bit 
skeptical.  From my experience, that stuff is pretty soft.

When I was a pup many years ago, doing auto body work, I used a very hard 
filler called Black Magic on rust.  For that purpose it held up far better 
than generic mud I bought by the gallon, which I think was called Easy 
White.  

Black Magic was very hard and a real bear to sand - it took a grinder.  
But 
it would hold metal that was rusting through from the back for ages, while 
the cheap stuff would bubble up in months.

I haven't seen Black Magic offered in many a year, though.  I wonder if 
there's anything equivalent available today.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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