[engineman]

I'm building a bicycle stand from 1/2" water pipe.
what will be the easiest and simplest effective way to paint it?

Engineman

[Mark Rand]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:37:51 -0700 (PDT), engineman wrote:

I'm building a bicycle stand from 1/2" water pipe.
what will be the easiest and simplest effective way to paint it?

Engineman

Spray or brush it with an etching primer first, then with the topcoat of your
choice.

I'd be a bit dubious about 1/2" water pipe. It's a bit floppy even for holding
push-bikes.


Mark Rand
RTFM

[Martin H. Eastburn]

Spray galvanize then overcoat that with spray can of your color.
Martin :-) You want to paint over the zinc since it will dissolve
off in acid rain and salt spray.

Martin

engineman wrote:
I'm building a bicycle stand from 1/2" water pipe.
what will be the easiest and simplest effective way to paint it?

Engineman

[Calif Bill[_2_]]

"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...
Spray galvanize then overcoat that with spray can of your color.
Martin :-) You want to paint over the zinc since it will dissolve
off in acid rain and salt spray.

Martin

engineman wrote:
I'm building a bicycle stand from 1/2" water pipe.
what will be the easiest and simplest effective way to paint it?

Engineman

Just spray paint the pipe. Spray a primer and then color shoot. Zinc
dissolve in salt spray? One of the main places for Galvanized is around
salt water. The Zinc will migrate to the scratched area. Dissolve maybe as
a zinc anode on a boat, but the zince went to the less nobel metal.

[ghb624]

I would tend to agree that 1/2" pipe sounds flimsy, unless you've got
some unique design that gets around the issue. In case you haven't
gotten too far into construction, here are photos of a buddy's DIY
bike stand, for consideration.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coalandice/2080250722/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coalandice/2080250726/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coalandice/2080250732

(In the first one he specifies 3/4" pipe for the upright piece. I
believe that's a mistake. Elsewhere you can see that he meant 1".

[Martin H. Eastburn]

Zinc chloride. Zinc sulfate. Zinc coating lasts for many more years
when painted over. It keeps metallic ions from flowing off.

Martin

Calif Bill wrote:
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...
Spray galvanize then overcoat that with spray can of your color.
Martin :-) You want to paint over the zinc since it will dissolve
off in acid rain and salt spray.

Martin

engineman wrote:
I'm building a bicycle stand from 1/2" water pipe.
what will be the easiest and simplest effective way to paint it?

Engineman

Just spray paint the pipe. Spray a primer and then color shoot. Zinc
dissolve in salt spray? One of the main places for Galvanized is around
salt water. The Zinc will migrate to the scratched area. Dissolve maybe as
a zinc anode on a boat, but the zince went to the less nobel metal.