At 05:14 PM 8/2/96 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Bruce pyle wrote:
>
>> >I'm thinking about using an Eastwood product called Oxisolv. Has anyone used
>> >this product? Can epoxy primer be used over it?
>> >
>> Don't know this one, but it sounds much like Extend which is a Locktite
>> product and is sold at NAPA and other places. It turns the oxide to ferrous
>> phosphate. Does not require a pristene surface. Tends to work in under
>> edges and stop spreading cancer. It serves as a primer or primer base.
>>
>Oxisolve is supposed to remove rust, so it is not the same as Extend,
>which is supposed to convert rust to an inert, paintable surface.
>
>I wish Extend worked; it would be wonderful if it did. I am here to tell
>you, however, that it does not. Repeat, it does not work. I have
>followed instructions to the letter, primed, and painted. The rust has
>returned within a year every time. Please do not use this as
>part of your preparation for an expensive paint job; you will be wasting
>your money. Don't use it for a simple touch up, for that matter; you
>will be wasting your time.
>
> Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
Don't want to start some kind of contest, but Extend has worked fine for me.
I have seen it convert the rust and stay without prime or other treatment
for over two years in a car I sold and which was exposed to the weather and
otherwise not cared for at all. Sorry your experience was different. I
have no commercial interst in this product, of course. It just worked for me
Bruce Pyle
>
>
|