I have a couple of metal brackets off the wifes mobility scooter that have
gone rusty. Getting the rust off will be easy, but how should I paint them
after

Jim

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:54:26 +0100, "Jim.G1SSO"
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I have a couple of metal brackets off the wifes mobility scooter that have
gone rusty. Getting the rust off will be easy, but how should I paint them
after

Jim

Hammerite smooth or treat them as a car bit and get the undercoat and
colour of choice from a car parts display of aerosols.

Some form of zinc based stuff and a top coat of almost anything seems to
work on most metal.

Brian

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I have a couple of metal brackets off the wifes mobility scooter that have
gone rusty. Getting the rust off will be easy, but how should I paint them
after

Jim

On 13/06/2013 21:54, Jim.G1SSO wrote:
I have a couple of metal brackets off the wifes mobility scooter that have
gone rusty. Getting the rust off will be easy, but how should I paint them
after

Jim


need a good primer first ... or etch blast to bare metal.
Then depends on longevity.

2 coats of Smoothrite applied in same day would be OK

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Jim.G1SSO wrote:

I have a couple of metal brackets off the wifes mobility scooter that
have gone rusty. Getting the rust off will be easy, but how should I
paint them after

I've found a decent primer is if anything more important than the top
coats. So after de-rusting, give it a good scrub, rinse in clean water and
dry. Then use an etch primer like POR 15.

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Huge wrote:
I've found a decent primer is if anything more important than the top
coats. So after de-rusting, give it a good scrub, rinse in clean water
and dry. Then use an etch primer like POR 15.

POR15 is neither an etchant or a primer.

Ahh. Meant U-Pol. Had just read an e-mail flyer from a car company
mentioning POR 15. ;-)

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Ahh. Meant U-Pol. Had just read an e-mail flyer from a car company
mentioning POR 15. ;-)

Isn't U-Pol the distributor of fibreglass fillers and talc-based
fillers, rather than an etch primer distributor?

Googles

Oh they seem to have expanded their range and now do primers. Live and
learn.

Do they still work out of the same skanky office block that's just
around the corner from the home of that silly bugger Bloater's step
mother in Totteridge or is it Whetstone at that point?

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