S-10 Forum banner
21 - 32 of 32 Posts
Hello, on this truck planning on fixing what ails it. PUTTING GLOSS BLACK WRAP on it this summer, keeping it until I die. In regards to fixing the rust I bought a rust converter which was water base to spray any visible rust I had. This is the stuff kills the rust from spreading and turning it in black metal. Si ce I wrapping it in black anyway its a win win for me. I bought a gallon of Krud Kutter through Amazon for $20. I used half a gallon on the undercarraige, using the rest on product panels as I find them. Thank you for your input on all of this. Have a nice day,work safe BE SAFE.
Hank
My response was to the OP that started the thread. Please start your own.

Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
 
You have to use some find of corrosion converter. While I working for the Navy there was no "Naval Jelly"; Naval Jelly was/ is a converter. For 18 years I worked for Shop 71; the painter/blasters; we media blasted using copper slag at one location and used steel grit at another. We blasted to "near white metal". After getting the grit out we got all the dust off we could and sprayed 85 degree epoxy paint on it, we shot for 0.250"; yep a quarter inch in one coat, this was ballast tanks and such. The hull got different paint. The hull was prepped the same way, but different paint was used. Different tanks (ballast vs. sanitary or potable water tanks) got different paints, but the prep was the same.
The thing is with vehicle bodies it's hard to get behind stuff when your prepping, you got to kill (convert) the rust some how to something inert. POR 15 is one way to do that. I hate repairing rust damage, it's so hard to get the back sides of the rusty places most times. If you can cover the rust with something that isolates it from oxygen it'll stop rusting, but it's better to convert it to something you can paint or coat, or bondo,
(think undercoat) so it's no longer exposed to the elements and paintable.
 
Found one 0.1% reason why it's good to live in The valley in California don't have to worry about my frame rotting away. Living in the salt belt sucks it just eats everything made of metal up.
 
Nothing wrong with replying to threads, but posting the same products 8 times in one thread is a bit much... 🤣 🤣
Ok, I was thinking if it works for me, then they might want to know, it might work for them. Have a good night. I am shutting down for the night. Maybe I should not reply back to RUST issues that work. You may delete my threads then if you like. I guess we have differences of what a "forumn" should be, generally thinking I thought it was to" generate discussion."
Goodnight Hank
 
21 - 32 of 32 Posts