Karl Townsend wrote:

My fittings on the six inch underground irrigation system are rusting out.
I'm digging up the third one as soon as parts come. This is a totally awful
terrible job. Unless you like doing Mexican backhoe in a mud hole.

Anyway, the fittings are all a weldament of six inch and four inch by 1/8"
wall steel tubing. I'm getting a small rust hole right at the bottom of the
pipe where water sits during the off season.

Anybody know of a corrosion preventative or something I could apply to the
steel like a zinc based paint maybe. Other ideas?

Karl

If you can access these parts out of the system, and since it's
non-potable water, I'd look at a coating like those made to coat inside
a gas tank.