Rust Treatment

How? Let's take the question seriously for a moment. I'm not talking about Ziebart.

How can you treat metal to prevent rust, or treat a nasty spot on your hood or repair
damage in your rocker panels?

Sand blasting is a drastic and a destructive measure.

Initial Treatment:
I visted an archaelogical site recently and saw how they preserved relics (iron mostly)
from 300 years ago. They treated items with a chemical that burned off the rust and left
a sediment bonded to the surface. Phosphorus or something.

I have also treated a radio bracket taken out of a burned out car with something from Canadian Tire (Canadian chain) that was green and once painted has not rusted since.

Final Treatment:
Someone mentioned trying parfin wax and chain saw oil as a final treatment.
Others swear by used oil sprayed under the car on a regular basis and then run the car
over a dusty road to create a surface.

Suggestions, ideas? What is the proshop answer - Question is coming from Canada where things ruuuuuuuust like no
one's business.

John

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Click on these links. Or do a search in this section for more info. Alot of this has been thoughly covered.

I read the message. Let me try this scenario:

Scenario 1
1) M-S 6878, acid based cleaner
2) etch primer
Scenario 2
choose a paint supplier abd use manufacturer's system
Scenario 3
An epoxy primer like PPG DP43LF epoxy primer

What about POR15? Who sells it? My body man here hasn't heard of it. I'm tickled pink. I picked up a sweeeet 65 Pontiac parisienne (283 V8) over the weekend that needs minimal work. (Sweet buy which I am going to sell to finance the SS I've been vying for the last 2 months http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif BUT the undercoating is peeling off showing a lot of surface rust.

If I read: http://www.chevelles.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/001980.html correctly, I should clean off old coating and rust and apply POR15 and maybe then another undercoating?

Any more advice would be helpful.

#1 rule: Never use an acid etch with self-etching primer. No mater what brands.
It's best to go with your #2 scenerio, pick a manufacturer and stick with them tru-out the whole process. Then if something goes wrong, you can blame them. Just kidding http://www.chevelles.com/forum/biggrin.gif
POR-15 is sold by Restomotive labratories or something like that in New Jersey. It's good for bare rusted metal in inaccesible areas or inner panels that don't require a fine finish.