>In a message dated 6/19/01 8:22:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>paddlers@nwlink.com writes:
>
>> Now once I have
>> it down to raw steel I have two choices.
>>
>> A) I can give it a coat of POR 15.
>>
>I had thought that POR 15 needed to react with some amount of rust in order
>to work properly. Would it work if you sandblasted to bare metal?
>
>Ed Bailey
>66 S2A SWB (Millennium Falcon)
>Somewhere in East Tennessee
I've been told that if you get stuff blasted and want to POR 15 it, you
need to hose it down and let it sit for a week or two so that it gets that
nice thin layer of surface rust. When you are done you are left with a
nice smooth black finish.
Russ and Leslie Wilson
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come
to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
--Ronald Reagan
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