Rust is more terrible and more evil than the Communists, Nazi’s or even the Taliban. It never ever stops, it eats while you sleep, it destroys your very sole, it brings around fights and lots of lost time and money.

I recently have come back from battle with this great enemy. I feel as though I have vanquished it... but I am sure that the fight will come again.

Before I engaged in battle I called a number of body shops to see who would want to do battle and there was not a sole to be found in the Baltimore area that would. So I struck out on my crusade by myself.

First stop was to home depot for wire brushes and a bunch of cheap paint brushes. I found that the fine wire brush was more effective than the course. Then head out to your favorite grocery store for a box of plastic spoons and saran wrap. Then I really opened the wallet and purchased a ton of stuff from POR 15. www.por15.com (free shipping if you give them all your money: www.stoprust.net) What you really need is the metal ready and POR 15 (that is the name of the company but also the name of one of their products) Read all of the directions, twice. Then don your best battle dress, call in reinforcements (friends are best or if you are like me and don't have any then goats, dogs and an alpaca or two will work) and prepare for battle.

This battle might be best fought with the windshield out of the car. Clean metal with wire brushes, wash it with brake clean, soap and water, compressed air (what ever you have, make it clean!) put on several coats of the METAL READY. Once that has dried; paint on the POR 15. As the directions indicate you need to transfer the POR 15 to a smaller container from witch to paint. I found that the POR 15 dries no matter what container you put it in. The plastic spoons are for siring the POR 15 and for transferring it to a smaller container. Saran wrap is to cover POR 15 paint can. I would recommend doubling the saran wrap over when you seal it so as to doubly make sure that no air gets in.


Good luck, God bless and happy New Year!

Andrew

p.s. POR 15 also makes a paint product called Hard Nose. I purchased some of this with the idea of eventually painting a bra on the car.