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strapping young lad:
must say the metal looks like its been made by bacofoil.. look at them creases! :)
Jake:
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Thats what i thought!!
A few coats of Hamerite should sort it out.
:D
pritch:
Personally, I'd go for getting it galvanised. The thing about painting is that once the paint gets scratched, corrosion can start. Because galvanising alters the way the steel corrodes through an electrochemical process, you won't start to see rusting if some of the galv comes off.
That said, with something that thick, it'll take a fair while for it to rust through anyway.
wing nut:
dont paint just sell it to me :lol:
Tyke:
Galvanise it - then you can paint over the top if you want it 'colour co-ordinated'.
Shouldn't have removed the 'yellow coating', (Zinc Dichromate), as it's one of the better anti corrosion coatings available at a reasonable price and also a very good surface finish for later painting. Certainly better than plain zinc, (galvanising), which will in time 'dissolve' due to it being a 'sacrificial' coating. i.e. the zinc will corrode in preference to the steel and then the steel will rust as normal.
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