John, the use of cold galvi as a repair or touch-up is not
uncommon. In the UK there's a paint called Galvafroid
that's used for the purpose - applied and then rubbed out
with steel wool or the like it's not bad looking at all.
Here in the USA there's a company called ZRC that makes a
cold galvanizing paint with an epoxy base. At 95% zinc in
dry film it's formidable stuff. The chassis on my current
restoration job was apinted with that, then a couple of
coats of chassis black acrylic. After that it got dumped
outdoors for far too long till the bulkhead was rebuilt.
Where scratched to bare metal the bare metal rusted, but
the rust did NOT creep. Formidable stuff, and heavy as hell
to work witth.
ZRC makes a "shiny" galvanizing paint of the same
formulation called Galvilite. I did some brackets with this
stuff and it looks fine, but I ended up overcoating it with
a clear acrylic just to give the surface some protection.
The vent controls on my S.II have been done this way for
over a year and look great - not like "real" galvi, but a
nice matte grey that doesn't look like paint.
ajr
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