Andy Dingley wrote:
On Tue, 09 May 2006 13:15:16 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

You might want to go over it and remove all old paint and use a chromate
type primer on it though.

Where are you going to even _find_ a chromate primer these days ? Apart
from being horribly toxic, they're also far from the best choice for
steel.

I was thinking of anti-rust treatments like Jenolite

A fire escape ought to have been galvanised to begin with. If it wasn't,
then it needs a good coat of zinc-based primer (Davids 182, or some
others) onto clean bare metal.

Not so good if its already corroded.

Agreed galvanisation is the best starting point, but f its been drilled
or welded or assembles with non galvanised bolts, or non steel ones...

To those who think that Hammerite works, think again. Utter rubbish the
one time I tried it.