Dean Richman
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Hi
I'm doing a nut and bolt 'body off' restoration of my 1960 steel bodied caravan and have bitten the bullet to paint the whole thing myself, as have the space and will invest in the equipment.
90% of the paint is weathered but not rusty and I tested areas down to bare metal and it's perfect, no rust so I'm just lightly sanding the top coat (which is a weird bumpy textured finish). The areas where paint has chipped off is rusty down to the bare metal so I'm sanding/wire brushing the rust out to good clean metal. On these areas, as I'm going, I'm red oxide them to prevent immediate rust formulating (the original caravan's paint shows it's had red oxide, then grey primer and top coat.
So my question is: I understand epoxy primer is what I need to use, so do I do a guide coat over the whole body once I've finished removing all bare metal rust areas and flatting the top coat, then fill the dings? If so, I assume another layer of primer over the filled areas and finally top coat?
How long can it stay with red oxide on the bare metal areas (we live on the sea front which is far from ideal for this type of work!) Also, I used meths to clean off the paint dust after sanding/wire wheeling the rusty areas before applying red oxide, just to give a dust free surface, knowing it evaporates fast – is that OK?
Thanks for any advice
I'm doing a nut and bolt 'body off' restoration of my 1960 steel bodied caravan and have bitten the bullet to paint the whole thing myself, as have the space and will invest in the equipment.
90% of the paint is weathered but not rusty and I tested areas down to bare metal and it's perfect, no rust so I'm just lightly sanding the top coat (which is a weird bumpy textured finish). The areas where paint has chipped off is rusty down to the bare metal so I'm sanding/wire brushing the rust out to good clean metal. On these areas, as I'm going, I'm red oxide them to prevent immediate rust formulating (the original caravan's paint shows it's had red oxide, then grey primer and top coat.
So my question is: I understand epoxy primer is what I need to use, so do I do a guide coat over the whole body once I've finished removing all bare metal rust areas and flatting the top coat, then fill the dings? If so, I assume another layer of primer over the filled areas and finally top coat?
How long can it stay with red oxide on the bare metal areas (we live on the sea front which is far from ideal for this type of work!) Also, I used meths to clean off the paint dust after sanding/wire wheeling the rusty areas before applying red oxide, just to give a dust free surface, knowing it evaporates fast – is that OK?
Thanks for any advice