Roda AC asks if anyone has experience with Waxoyl, now available in the
US. Waxoyl has been available for quite some time to dealers; what is now
available here is 5 liter tins and DIY kits. My 87 Prelude was waxoyled
by the dealer when new, and retreated every 2 yrs by me, and it is still
rust-free in spite of VT's intensive road salting. I like Waxoyl because
it has very little tendency to plug up drain holes--on a hot day after an
application, the excess simply runs out. Hint--don't park on your new
asphalt drive for a while after application, or you will have a mess. I
was sufficiently impressed that I waxoyled every cavity of my bugeye.
Howsomeever, the attraction that one does not need professional equipment
is misleading. The DIY kit I received (about 3 yrs ago) would allow one
to spray onto exposed surfaces fairly well, rather like a pump-up garden
sprayer. I had doubts about how well it coated hidden box sections,
because the applicator squirts the material but does not atomize it.
Maybe the DIY application system has improved, but I was not impressed. I
bought better quality application stuff from Eastman, for use with a
compressor. Whatever you use, heat the waxoyl before application. You
can immerse the cans in buckets of hot water. I use an electric heater
beamed on the can. I generally use waxoyl straight, but I have also at
times stretched the material and improved (I hope) its tendency to wick
into seams by thinning it with motor oil when treating enclosed areas.
IMHO motor oil is a fine rustproofing agent for box cavities, but it is
useless for areas that receive direct road spray and it worsens the
tendency for material to leak out for days after application. On exposed
surfaces that may receive direct spray, I invariably use the waxoyl
straight.
With the Eastman equipment, I can inject hot waxoyl into one end of a rocker
and see Waxoyl mist come out 4 feet away :-). With the DIY kit, a lot of
it came out the drain holes onto my feet and I was not confident I had
gotten a continuous coating. Years in the rust belt have convinced me
that no rustproofing works unless the coating is continuous.
Ray Gibbons
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