I don't think that product is junk, hardly. I am nutty about stopping rust, and I'd say preparing the surface is extremely important. I like to treat rusty metal first with 'rust prep' ............Osphro is a famous one. I use 'loctite Extend Rust Neutralizer'.........produces like these turn rust to primered metal. Of course you get all the loose stuff off first. I just use a wire brush basically, either a power wire wheel or a small hand wire brush. Conditions matter too.........high humidity and low temps are not good. Getting it really down in there is a task too, like deep in cracks. But I bet if you prep it really well, use a surface etching or 'turns it to primer' product first, or whatever POR recommends ( I think they have their own product to do that ) ............and get 'all' rust spots way down in the seems, and work in dry warm conditions...........it'll be on there forever. Darn, my POR Brochure is not at my fingertips, but I'm sure it's not 'junk' . You do need to use anything like that properly. I would expect something to be applied before the POR paint to prep the surface more. Getting the product to bond with the rusty metal, rather than just cover it, is the goal. Scott www.turbovans.com -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Larry Himli Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:43 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Seam Rust & POR I don't want to start another thread but recently there was one regarding seam rust. Some of you were pretty vocal that POR was junk! Previously I didn't pay much attention because it wasn't a problem for me. However, several years ago when the subject came up consensus was that POR was a miracle for this problem. I bought some of the materials and was planning to fix several spots in the near future. Should I or shouldn't eye.
Larry 87 Westy |
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