Prep work for painting

[jorel140@yahoo.com (Jorel Jackson)]

--- Marc scirocco Québec <marc_scirocco@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
> CIL makes some. It is called more or less "metal
> preparation" and any good autoparts store selling
> paint ought to have something similar. Home depot
> might have it too.
> 
> My can says the following:
> "formulated to rid metal surface of rust and
> increase
> adherence by adding a ferric phosphate film keeping
> chlorides and oxids from infiltrating the metal
> surface. This product also prevents eventual rues
> speckles from spreading under the coat of painting"
> 
> Of course wear protection when using this stuff, it
> is
> nasty. And by protection I do not mean Trojans...
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Marc
> '83 Scirocco
> '88 Scirocco Slegato
> 
>  --- Cmr446@cs.com a écrit : >   Is there any
> specific
> type of acid, or name brand?
> > Or could I just walk in 
> > and say, "Dood, I need some acid!" ?
> >    
> > Carl
> > 77rocco
> > 89fox    
> > 
> > 
> > In a message dated 4/10/02 11:21:32 PM Eastern
> > Daylight Time, 
> > marc_scirocco@yahoo.ca writes:
> > 
> > << 
> >  2.5) ALWAYS treat bare metal with acid (sold at
> > paint
> >  houses) BEFORE painting anything. Turns whatever
> is
> >  left on the bare matal into black rust which is
> >  chemically inert, so it does not rust back again.
> >  Trust me, done it very often as I live in the
> land
> > of
> >  the rust buckets...
> >   >>


I experienced this on my first project. The stuff
would come back even after I thought it was all gone.
I didn't know about this acid treatment thing then.
Thanks for the info.

=====
Jorel Jackson
web site:  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~jomoj/
1987 16v & 1985 8v Sciroccos
2000 Neon ES
Jaguar XK 180

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