anyone use a rust converter before? luck with it?
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anyone use a rust converter before? luck with it?
I'm going to be replacing my quarter panels, and a few other pieces of metal
to rid my 95 cx of rust.
Under my rear speakers inside the bottom of the panel it's a little dusty and
I think a couple tiny rust bubbles.
for those areas and many others that you just cant get to ,
I would like to do something, spray something. kill the rust in those areas.
I've done a ton of research and rust-mort, picklex, and others claim to convert the rust to a hard black insoluble surface.
it seems rust-mort is put into a spray bottle and you can just spray away and it converts the rust, but I think needs a primer/sealant also.
the picklex someone said can be sprayed like that and it will convert, prime, and seal and that's all you have to do.... one guy says you have to rinse it off. so that wouldn't work for hard to get places, I can rinse it off where it cant dry completely...
Has anyone tried one of these before? If I'm doing the quarters etc, then I want to protect the rest of my car as well.
I know there's por 15, but that,like many others, looks like it's only to be used on clean metal surfaces, not over rust, because the rust will just go through it eventually.
any advice would be great, I just want to use stuff that works.
some ppl say nothing can convert rust and it's all a lie,
some ppl say it works great and they haven't had rust come back in 4 yrs, like this guy used rustmort.
I used it. Hells yes it stinks. But for about 4 years now, I haven't seen any rust spread thru it. I haven't even painted it, just threw it on to stop it kinda thing.
this guy used picklex :
Next time you need a converter try Picklex, it works much better than Rustmort. We were using Rustmort for years with marginal success but the Picklex works fast and well. You'll see the difference immediately.
but once again, is it really working on rust ?? or just bare metal???
to rid my 95 cx of rust.
Under my rear speakers inside the bottom of the panel it's a little dusty and
I think a couple tiny rust bubbles.
for those areas and many others that you just cant get to ,
I would like to do something, spray something. kill the rust in those areas.
I've done a ton of research and rust-mort, picklex, and others claim to convert the rust to a hard black insoluble surface.
it seems rust-mort is put into a spray bottle and you can just spray away and it converts the rust, but I think needs a primer/sealant also.
the picklex someone said can be sprayed like that and it will convert, prime, and seal and that's all you have to do.... one guy says you have to rinse it off. so that wouldn't work for hard to get places, I can rinse it off where it cant dry completely...
Has anyone tried one of these before? If I'm doing the quarters etc, then I want to protect the rest of my car as well.
I know there's por 15, but that,like many others, looks like it's only to be used on clean metal surfaces, not over rust, because the rust will just go through it eventually.
any advice would be great, I just want to use stuff that works.
some ppl say nothing can convert rust and it's all a lie,
some ppl say it works great and they haven't had rust come back in 4 yrs, like this guy used rustmort.
I used it. Hells yes it stinks. But for about 4 years now, I haven't seen any rust spread thru it. I haven't even painted it, just threw it on to stop it kinda thing.
this guy used picklex :
Next time you need a converter try Picklex, it works much better than Rustmort. We were using Rustmort for years with marginal success but the Picklex works fast and well. You'll see the difference immediately.
but once again, is it really working on rust ?? or just bare metal???
Re: anyone use a rust converter before? luck with it?
por-15 can be used on rust, i believe thats what its for, as well as protecting bare metal. u just have to topcoat it with primer/base/clear because it has no UV protection
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Re: anyone use a rust converter before? luck with it?
Yeah, POR 15 can definitely go over rust. In fact lightly rusted surfaces are the ideal substrate for it. The rust bites into the metal, then the POR bonds with the rust and thus the POR is deeply bonded in the metal.
The only thing is you can't have heavy rust or scale, but that is a given with anything. If you will sand the rust down with to a thin layer, clean and remove dirt/dust, and apply POR 15 it will work very well.
Check out this thread: https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...2811044&page=4 . I redid the badly rusted suspension components on our CRV with POR 15.
The only thing is you can't have heavy rust or scale, but that is a given with anything. If you will sand the rust down with to a thin layer, clean and remove dirt/dust, and apply POR 15 it will work very well.
Check out this thread: https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...2811044&page=4 . I redid the badly rusted suspension components on our CRV with POR 15.
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Re: anyone use a rust converter before? luck with it?
The condition is that you cant have heavy rust,which is given with anything. If you put the rust down with thin layer then you clean and remove dust by applying POR 15 it will work very well.
As my opinion POR 15 will definitely work rust.Lightly rusted surfaces are the ideal substrate for that.First the rust bites into metal,after that the POR bonds with the rust.Finally this POR is bonded in the metal.
As my opinion POR 15 will definitely work rust.Lightly rusted surfaces are the ideal substrate for that.First the rust bites into metal,after that the POR bonds with the rust.Finally this POR is bonded in the metal.
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