I think the entire kit is a bit pricey. Do you really need to buy the POR
brushes, steel reinforcing fabric (i.e., screen), gloves, and dispensing
scoop? Get those things at your local hardware store, and buy some laquer
thinner if you want solvent. I never clean up brushes anyway when I use
POR 15; it's MUCH easier to buy cheap brushes and toss them when you're
done.
So: you buy the POR-15 silver paint, a pound of their epoxy putty, and
clean up the metal with your own products. You lay the screen down on the
wet paint, give it another coat and build it up with the putty once the
paint's dry. Sand it down then to get the look right and throw some of
your own primer on it (it's not supposed to be black anyway, which is
what it would be if you did it their way).
There, you've spent about a third of the cost of their kit, and ended up
with just as good a result.
John Middlesworth
1966 TR4A
1960 TR3A
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, David Moag wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning on using the POR-15 Floorboard Resto kit to fill in small rust
> holes and fix up my floor boards and trunk on my TR3B. Has anyone used the
> kit before? Any words of wisdom or gotchas to watch for?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Moag
> 77 Spitfire
> 62 TR3B
>
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