If it were me, I'd look around and see if I could find
somebody to sandblast it. Probably can barter for it
somehow. I helped a friend clean up a 28 ft. enclosed
trailer that had had the lid off for 8 years, so had to do
the frame, sides and roof stringers. Never again, noisy,
dirty and took forever. When we figured out how long it
took, we coulda worked for min wage ($5/hr)and had money
left to buy the paint, the roof sheeting, and lights. And
not sucked up a load of rust and crap, even with masks.

Make sure on your tilting mechanism that you have POSITIVE
control of the tilt in both directions whenever you are
tipping it. Murphy or Darwin will get you sooner or later if
you don't. I've heard the stories and seen the results of
guys with bruises, dented tailgates, lawn tractors upside
down, etc. when they've lost control of the load as the CG
came over center.

Gunner wrote:

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:31:47 GMT, "ATP"
wrote:


"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote in message

If you are going to the trouble of painting, treat the rust first or
it'll pop right back out. As a minimum I would get a needle scaler or
a 4" grinder with a knotted brush, or something to knock the big
surface rust off, then use a rust converter before rusty metal primer.
It will come back again, but not nearly as fast.

I had to replace the seat on my Bobcat recently and used my needle scaler to
remove the rust from the metal base the seat mounts to. I was pleased with
the speed of removal, for heavy flaking rust it can actually work as fast as
blasting with a fairly large sandblaster. You don't have to wear through the
rust as with other methods, it can "peel" or scale layers off. You don't get
a white metal finish but do end up with a pretty tight surface.

Hummm Ive never used a needle scaler..or actually even seen one used
before. Ill have to check into it.

Gunner

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