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Re: TR3A Rust-Removal

To: <Trmgafun@aol.com>, <ron_botting@mindlink.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: TR3A Rust-Removal
From: "Winnie Olmer" <who@sover.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:11:27 -0500
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Anybody have any experience with the "WaxOil" system?

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> From: Trmgafun@aol.com
> To: ron_botting@mindlink.bc.ca
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR3A Rust-Removal
> Date: Thursday, October 31, 1996 5:41 PM
> 
> >instead go the usual route of sndblasting followed by etch primer and
then a
> >good frame paint.  I used POR 15 with good results.
> >>The POR rep recommends that I skip the etching primer.
> 
> 
> Ron, 
>  
> Why not do the welding before dipping?  Is the frame that bad?  I would
think
> you could grind away the rust in the immediate area for welding, then dip
it
> and paint it.
> 
> As far as POR 15 over bare metal?  Usually a primer is used first since
it
> has better adhesion to bare metal.  The POR 15 seems to be a coating that
is
> not the same as your typical frame paint.  It has some sort of rust
> conversion properties in it and is intended (they claim) to be painted
right
> over rust (?)  Kind of like the Corroless stuff that the Eastwood Company
> sells.  I used that sruff on a truck of mine once and the rust was the
> winner.  Although over clean metal, it probably would have been fine. 
It's
> been around for a while.  They seem to advertise fairly heavily.
> 
> 
> Scott in Indiana
> 1958 MGA  HDA4346400
> 1958 TR3A TS35306L - FOR SALE
> 1968 TR250 CD3520L
> 
> 
> 
> 

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