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Rust prevention/repai 200 1983

posted by  jbowser on  Tue Jun 10 15:53 CST 2003
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Surface rust can be fixed just by sanding to bare metal, treating the metal with something similar to DuPont Metal Prep, priming and painting. If there is a hole NEVER plug it with plastic filer (aka Bondo) as the plastic filler is porous and will act like a sponge.

If there is a hole the rusted metal must be cut out, the backside treated with something like POR-15 and patched with either new sheetmetal or fiberglass. Once this repair is made then plastic filler can be used to smooth and contour the repair before painting. I suppose pinholes could be "fixed" with just POR-15 but pay close to the instructions for topcoating with paint as it is a bit tricky.

Regards,

Justin B.






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