[Mgs] Painting inside a chassis

[Paul Hunt]

Some do it annually.  I did mine once then for the next 10 years or so get a 
good hot day and it would still drip - and that's in the UK.  Under those 
conditions it is certainly 'creeping'.  It won't creep in cool conditions 
and shouldn't be applied in them.  Standing the can in hot water may well 
liquidise what is in there, but as soon as it starts going through the hose 
to the spray attachment it cools and thickens again, so it needs to be 
applied in hot weather.  Adding white spirit to thin it down helps.  The 
application kit also isn't that good, especially the cavity 'wand' (a nail 
pushed into the end of a plastic tube for heavens sake), a proper pressure 
spray gun should be used.  As far as an MGB goes about the one place where 
Waxoyl is positively harmful is the sills behind the front and rear wing 
cover panels.  There is a very narrow vertical gap there, and Waxoyl will 
bridge it trapping moisture in an unprotected area.  This is why replaced 
front and rear wing cover panels often rust through faster than the 
originals - I've had to replace five out of the eight that came to me 
already done.  In those areas I squirt new engine oil down the gaps, then 
distribute it with a piece of thin card.  Time will tell.  Old-hand 
mechanics used to paint your chassis and underbody with your old engine oil 
if you asked them.  Some say it is full of acids that will eat your chassis 
away, but forget it has just come out of your engine and soft-metal bearings 
...

PaulH.

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> How often does Waxol need to be reapplied?