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Re: [Mgs] Painting Coil Springs

To: "WSpohn4@aol.com" <WSpohn4@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Painting Coil Springs
From: Steve <temporarilyoffline@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:53:02 -0400
Mine are already red...

I already have a can of black rustoleum... so I'll just have a mixed bag.

I just want to stop the rust for now... seems like my duty to do it
while its sitting on the bench, instead of agnostically putting them
back on a car.

- Steve

On 8/20/07, WSpohn4@aol.com <WSpohn4@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 8/20/2007 9:17:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> temporarilyoffline@gmail.com writes:
>
> I've got  some rust on my coil springs that I'd like to get cleaned and
> covered while  I have them on the bench.
>
> Any recommendations for paint?  Salty  Winter roads are approaching my
> daily driver  soon.
>
>
>
>
> ____________________________________
>
>
> Well you aren't in much danger of them rusting through, but if  you want to
> clean them up just use Tremclad, as you probably have some oxide on  them
> unless you really sandblast them.
>
> You can go for the extroverted red, or the demure black or any  of the other
> colours in their range.
>
> I paint a lot of stuff in Rebuilder's Grey (not a Tremclad  product) as it
> makes things look like a raw unpainted casting.
>
> Rest assured that sooner or later they will chip anyway as  stones kick up at
> them.
>
> Bill
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