[DeTomaso] Painting Question???

[Tom Borcich]

Will, that is exactly what I was looking for. I will order some for my 
A-arms. I hate the current paints because the government forced the 
manufacturers to remove all the good chemicals that made the old paints so 
durable, at least in Orange and Los Angeles County.

That's also a great tip on the stainless...that's another project I'm going 
to tackle. The Polyurethane's should also work great in the engine bay.

Thanks very much. I only want to do it once.

Tom
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From: "Will Demelo" <wdemelo at cogeco.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:50 AM
To: "Tom Borcich" <tborcich at msn.com>; "Pantera REALBIG forum" 
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Painting Question???

> LISTEN TO ME!! I just did my A-arms. I'm yelling because I just found the 
> best paint/primer/rust proof to use on metal parts.
> I searched for a sandable primer and found this stuff at Southern 
> Polyurothanes Inc. I bought black epoxy primer #6620-1. It is amazing. 
> It's self etching and sticks to everything. I tried it on a piece of 
> highly polished pipe and most paints would not have stuck. I could barely 
> scratch it off with a screwdriver.
> I laid 4 heavy coats on my A-arms yesterday and it came out like thick 
> powdercoating. Comes out like satin black. I also used it on my stainless 
> trim.
> http://www.southernpolyurethanes.com/
> Will
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Borcich" <tborcich at msn.com>
> To: "Pantera REALBIG forum" <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:36 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Painting Question???
>
>
>>
>> Sorry first message got sent before it was finished...here the rest of 
>> the message:
>>
>> I am bead blasting my A-arms and notice that once you get through the
>> black factory top coat/paint there is a brown coating which is either 
>> fine rust
>> or brown primer?
>>
>> The metal is cleaning up pretty well, but
>> there are some areas where there are pores in the metal too small to
>> remove all the rust, so there appears to be a very light film of rust
>> still present. I'm considering using an etching prep primer from Jasco 
>> (Prep & Prime). This seems to be a nuetralizer for really rusty metal, 
>> but the metal might be fine by just using a regular Alkyd rusty metal 
>> primer. I've never used an etching primer like this and not sure if it 
>> gives bad results on cleaner metal when no significant rust is present. 
>> I've read that the prep and prime activates when there is rust present 
>> due to chemical reactions and actually create a chemical bond to the 
>> metal.
>>
>> Here's my question, should I do the following steps:
>> 1. Jasco prep and prime
>> 2. alkyd primer
>> 3. top coat
>>
>> Or should I eliminate Step 1 and not use the Jasco prep and prime?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Tom Borcich
>>
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