Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:29:34 -0400
Reply-To: Roger Ritchie <ritchie.re@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Ritchie <ritchie.re@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Rust Demons
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Have a look at the Eastwood website. Their prices are steep, but their
quality and customer service is very high. I've used their anti-rust
products on seam rust for several years with excellent results.
Long time lurker, second time poster
Roger R.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> Poetic license in poem and prose - no place for corrections there.
> Poets prerogative to use the language at will.
>
> I got a tickle out of the play - "griddled lions" as opposed to "girdled
> loins!"
>
> John
>
> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>
>
>
> On 6/16/2011 2:15 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>
>> For someone who corrects other's spelling mistakes, you have a lot of
>> gall Scott.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> "Oshpro"? you mean Ospho
>>
>> "spary"? did you mean sparry, a crystalline mineral?
>>
>> "bascially"? please define.
>>
>> "Epozy" is that a new epoxy?
>>
>> "which is easily treated and stopped forever just about." make up your
>> mind, does it or doesn't it?
>>
>> And besides all that, girdle and griddle are more closely related than
>> you think. Girdle is the N. English and Scottish variation of griddle.
>>
>> Isn't it annoying when someone corrects another's spelling and use of
>> English?
>>
>> alistair
>>
>>
>> On 16-Jun-11, at 11:15 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>
>> What poetic writing.
>>> I thought one 'girded' ones loins though.
>>> or close to that..but not 'griddled' .
>>>
>>> sounds like you're havin' fun now !
>>> I love treating and fixing rust on vanagons.
>>> I regard rust as falling into two main catagories...
>>> 'surface rust' which is easily treated and stopped forever just about.
>>>
>>> and 'body cancer rust' ..
>>> where you're replacing missing metal.
>>>
>>> on surface rust ..
>>> I use Oshpro sometimes..
>>> watch out with that stuff, it'll etch a concrete floor badly.
>>> on one car of mine ..to get it up inside frame rails..way back in
>>> there..
>>> I got one of those motorized dental spray 'water-pic' things from a
>>> drug
>>> store..
>>> that'll spary two feet back into a channel.. It's rough on the water-
>>> pic
>>> though. Doesn't last too long, but gets the job done nicely.
>>>
>>> I also use 'rust converter' paint as a primer.
>>> I use 'self-etching' primer ..
>>> bascially ..
>>> treat the metal,
>>> primer it..
>>> then paint with good paint.
>>>
>>> I have seen many two part epozy paints that 'cover' ..
>>> but they don't really bond with the metal.
>>> you want a primer or very good paint that really 'gets in' the
>>> metal, not
>>> just cover it.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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