I'm looking to clean up the rust on some of my bunk supports and repaint them in gloss black. They all have 90%+ of the steel left and I would like to keep it that way.
My duck boat trailer my son and I sand blasted it and painted it with Rust Oleum from the gallon can not spray cans. It only lasted about 2 seasons and started rusting again, I don't know maybe a bad batch?
So what has anyone else used the has held up?
I was thinking of maybe a catalyzed urethane auto paint
The key to stopping rust on a trailer is to remove ALL of the rust and use a good primer. By all of the rust I mean sandblasting to bare steel and priming within a couple hours before the steel discolors. Do this and hit the metal with a good quality 2 part epoxy primer followed by your paint of choice and it will last longer than it did with the factory paint job.
Be done with it and LineX it! I think mine was 125 to sand blast the trailer and 275 for the LineX. Might be a bit different depending on the LineX dealer.
Never thought about linex, the local 4X4 shop does that everyone on their trucks that they drive around are done in it.
por-15 the rust.........then top coat..........even if u line x it.......
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Consider powder coating as well.....
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