thread: Rust treatment

  1. #1
    thomp1983's Avatar
    Apr 2012
    Newark, Notts
    906

    Rust treatment

    Looking at the sills inside the b posts im thinking about how to treat them. Most of the liquid options appear to be various solutions of phosphoric acid, fertans rust treatment gets good reviews but at £25 for a litre it's not cheap.alternatively i can buy a normal phosphoric acid for £16 a litre.

    Im looking for something that will leave me a converted surface i can then plaster in cavity wax, liquid is preferable considering how difficult getting into the bottom of the b pillars

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    Jiff Lemon's Avatar
    Jul 2005
    Milk and Beans
    2,276
    Big fan of fertan - Used it on the MK1
    I hate all southerners. As a point of reference, I'm stood at the north pole.

  3. #3
    Grenade's Avatar
    Dec 2012
    Cleveland Ohio USA
    2,027
    I've only been creating rust lately, so I'm of no damn help whatsoever! I have heard that cutting it out is the only way. You can slow it down, but as far as I know, you can't eradicate it once it's there. Products, snake oil or specialist treatments are just prolonging the inevitable. Is there some miracle cure for it?

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    thomp1983's Avatar
    Apr 2012
    Newark, Notts
    906
    Cutting the inner skins of the b posts just isn't going to happen whats there isn't too bad so hopefully i can slow it as much as possible but yes cutting it away is the best option everytime

  5. #5

    Jun 2007
    390
    Sand blasting will absolutely remove rust just get some zinc primer onto it asap to protect the bare steel, also waxoil

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