Painting Tins. No really...

What color should these tins be?

  • Candy green and white a la XS1

    Votes: 15 30.0%
  • Candy gold and white a la XS1

    Votes: 19 38.0%
  • Candy red and white a la XS2

    Votes: 16 32.0%

  • Total voters
    50
Anyone ever use this stuff? Directions say it removes about anything... including silicone based stuff.

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In the BS we used a product called Pre-Kleeno, very similar to the old Duplicolor Oil and wax remover. I believe both of those products contained toluene. When those products were determined to cause cancer some of them were replaced by an idiotic solution that had to be rinsed off with water instead of just using lint free towels followed by a tack rag.

How is the Rustoleum stuff used?

I could never bring myself to hose off bare metal, primer or sanded paint.

My old Boss at the BS used to joke about getting even with the other body shop owners by spraying silicone in their shops.

Scott

Edit, I just read the application instructions, looks like the "Right Stuff".
 
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Old story...….I was painting a VW fender that was set up on some saw horses, The boss was in the paint room painting his '63 Chevy. The boss was rushing through the shop to get something related to his paint job. While rushing through the shop he knocked the VW fender off of the saw horses. A very saturated Pre-Kleeno rag wiped off the un-cured enamel and left the sanded primer undisturbed so I could paint it again with three coats of enamel. Then the boss came through and brushed against my second flawless paint job. I used the Pre-Kleeno and painted again. Three times!!!!! Three times I painted that fender. Maybe I made $20 painting that fender three times, maybe not.

Scott
 
Read through this entire thread and can't decide if I really want to buy a tank and go to town this winter, or if this is way more work than I care to do...

The desire for a Nantucket Blue tank with two white stripes going on either side of the tank cap is strong.
 
Read through this entire thread and can't decide if I really want to buy a tank and go to town this winter, or if this is way more work than I care to do...
The desire for a Nantucket Blue tank with two white stripes going on either side of the tank cap is strong.

hi fixthe,
depends on how close you want it to look good.
Looks OK from across the street just needs stripe-tape & rattle-cans.
Looks great up close needs skill & effort.
 
hi fixthe,
depends on how close you want it to look good.
Looks OK from across the street just needs stripe-tape & rattle-cans.
Looks great up close needs skill & effort.
I would for sure want to keep my current tank as is then pick up a new one to paint. Checking eBay it looks like there are some reasonably priced tanks that I wouldn't mind picking up and giving it a shot myself, but shipping absolutely kills it. If I was going to spend $150+ on a tank after shipping, I'd want to make sure it looks good by the time its done.

If I could pick something up cheap locally or find one within Canada for a good price after shipped I could definitely see myself picking it up as a winter project to mess around on.
 
I would for sure want to keep my current tank as is then pick up a new one to paint. Checking eBay it looks like there are some reasonably priced tanks that I wouldn't mind picking up and giving it a shot myself, but shipping absolutely kills it. If I was going to spend $150+ on a tank after shipping, I'd want to make sure it looks good by the time its done.

If I could pick something up cheap locally or find one within Canada for a good price after shipped I could definitely see myself picking it up as a winter project to mess around on.

Where in Canada are you located fixthe?

It is a rather big place.....
 
All the high end paint guys here use glass cleaner between coat (wipe down after sanding)
 
One year and a day ago I started this experiment. This is the Boeing certified fuel tank epoxy primer. Every airplane built by Boeing has their fuel tanks sprayed with this stuff. Here's the test pieces after a yr and a day of sitting in regular unleaded with 10% ethanol. The paint is still solid.... won't scratch or rub off.

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Also, this spring (April?) my garden tiller wouldn't start. The short of it is the tank and carb was all rusted up. Cleaned 'em out with hydrocloric acid and coated the inside of the tank with this primer. Ran the tiller (again) a few weeks ago and the primer is still solid.

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So, I'm callin' this a viable solution for rusted tanks. The advantage I see is it's a paint and not a liner. If it ever does break down, there's not much there to cause problems... just a coating of paint vs. chunks of epoxy or goo for a liner.

The main sticking point is it comes in 2 gallon kits... at 200 bucks a pop. One idea I'm kickin' around is buying pint cans and dividing it up into 1 quart kits (1 pint paint and 1 pint hardener). That would give you enough to slosh 3 to 4 tanks.... at 25 bucks a kit plus the cost of the cans and shipping. Anyone know how you go about shipping paint?
What's the normal cost for the traditional liner kits (Redcoat... POR15...etc.)?
 
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One year and a day ago I started this experiment. This is the Boeing certified fuel tank epoxy primer. Every airplane built by Boeing has their fuel tanks sprayed with this stuff. Here's the test pieces after a yr and a day of sitting in regular unleaded with 10% ethanol. The paint is still solid.... won't scratch or rub off.

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Also, this spring (April?) my garden tiller wouldn't start. The short of it is the tank and carb was all rusted up. Cleaned 'em out with hydrocloric acid and coated the inside of the tank with this primer. Ran the tiller a few weeks ago and the primer is still solid.

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So, I'm callin' this a viable solution for rusted tanks. The advantage I see is it's a paint and not a liner. If it ever does break down, there's not much there to cause problems... just a coating of paint vs. chunks of epoxy or goo for a liner.

The main sticking point is it comes in 2 gallon kits... at 200 bucks a pop. One idea I'm kickin' around is buying pint cans and dividing it up into 1 quart kits (1 pint paint and 1 pint hardener). That would give you enough to slosh 3 to 4 tanks.... at 25 bucks a kit plus the cost of the cans and shipping. Anyone know how you go about shipping paint?
What's the normal cost for the traditional liner kits (Redcoat... POR15...etc.)?

Could it be shipped to the UK Jim? I’d certainly be interested!
 
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