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Chris Stevens
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Hi JF, I weld up and fabricate a lot of classics and make a very good living out of it. Prevention is no help to me as I don't own any of the vehicles and I know all that stuff but I'm at the receiving end of people's repairs when it's drastic. It's at this point I need to chat with similar classic repairers like my self and compare the characteristics of other chemicals tried by others. No one in the right mind would cut out 90% of the internal box section steel just because it's got heavy surface rust as its just not do-able when it still retains a lot of strength.
So ideally I want to ask other professional repairers to see what they use and why, characteristics of what they use and long term progress.
If you are a professional tradesman involved in weld repairs on classics, then surely you shouldnt need advice from others about effective rust prevention, as while a cheap bodge job to get an MOT obviously isnt something that requires time and effort put into rust prevention, I feel its something that is part and parcel of the job if you are repairing valuable collectible vehicles?