Road marking Chlorinated paint on Subframes etc as a final

[mebedforduk]

Morning all

Bit of an obscure one.

Slowly doing up a SC100. Take off a part, give it a blast then etch prime then filler primer and pack away ready for the spray shop.

Just etch primed the fuel tank and noticed in my garage 5 litres of yellow chlorinated road marking paint containing shock horror real Lead.

This was bought about ten years ago for Government project so strings were pulled to make sure it still had lead in it. - It hasn't worn away in all this time

Thoughts on using this on the petrol tank, wishbones and generally any parts that wont be seen but are exposed to the worst conditions?

Or shall I just pour it over the mother in laws cat?

Cheers

Mark

 

[mechman]

Why stop at the cat.

 

[500e]

Leave us cats out of this it's not the cats fault

 

[mebedforduk]

The mother in law gets the eye drops in her tea when comes to stay.

 

[Daz1968]

We use yellow line paint at work and msds still shows lead so still available

 

[lundtang]

The lead content is due to the colour. Yellow is easy to do with a lead containing inorganic pigment, gives excellent hiding power at low cost. Lead free yellow pigments are much more difficult to work with and have less hiding power. Usually chlorinated rubber has reasonable adhesion to steel and gives good corrosion protection, you might try on a piece of sanded scrap steel. let dry for a week and half immerse in fresh water for a week or so and check if the adhesion on the wet part of the panel is as good as on the dry part.

Regards
Andreas