"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
03/30/2020 at 11:40 • Filed to: quarantine snow blower
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"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
03/30/2020 at 11:40 • Filed to: quarantine snow blower | 1
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Tearing this beast down to paint the augers and bucket before it rusts away. What kind of paint should I use? I’m contemplating por-15 ing it.
66P1800inpieces
> CalzoneGolem
03/30/2020 at 11:48 |
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Por-15 (isocyanate paint) or some sort of epoxy paint is probably your best bet as most other consumer will be too soft and come off too easily. Por-15 can turn brown and degrade from UV but if you store it inside it should be fine. Be careful and use a proper organic filter cartridge or clean air supply as that stuff will mess up your lungs. Even a good fan might not be enough.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> CalzoneGolem
03/30/2020 at 11:49 |
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How much sun exposure, and how much moisture? POR-15 is good for a seal and stabilizing the rust matrix already on the surface - phosphoric to iron phosphate some of the rust, and hygroscopic while curing - but it’s not necessarily the best to stay exposed to moisture over periods of time, and it can break down in UV.
Not to say you can’t do it, but if you do, might want to topcoat it with something. Which itself is a potential problem, because a hard enough topcoat to hold up will probably crack off, as the POR-15 itself isn’t as hard as some other substrates...
Still probably a way to go: POR-15, multiple days spent off-gassing so you don’t keep any moisture trapped, then a hard and thick enamel.
The most ideal is to blast it to bare metal and then recoat with a bake-on enamel, but that’s infrastructure and time you in no way are likely to have at hand or even want to invest if you did. I’d be tempted to go *cheaper*: wirewheel the dickens out of it, coat with rustoleum anti-rust primer, topcoat rustoleum, keep apply as needed. Won’t hold up, but is better than rust;
and being soft, will wear off instead of cracking and flaking.
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Michael
> CalzoneGolem
03/30/2020 at 12:05 |
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Whee. Missed the picture of POR-15 and POR primer, but. As received, painting, finished
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CalzoneGolem
> 66P1800inpieces
03/30/2020 at 13:42 |
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It will get stored inside.
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CalzoneGolem
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/30/2020 at 13:45 |
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The cheaper method is probably the best. I feed this thing rocks like crazy so a super hard coating would probably flake like mad.
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CalzoneGolem
> Michael
03/30/2020 at 13:46 |
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That looks amazing! How has the por-15 stood up over time?
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Michael
> CalzoneGolem
03/30/2020 at 13:56 |
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Just one season so far, but it’s holding up well. Only spots it’s failed is where I ran the chain case cover into a curb :X
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Michael
> Michael
03/30/2020 at 15:17 |
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Did the plow, too
Once again I missed step 1: remove paint down to steel
POR15, POR Primer, Deere Yellow, POR Black
pip bip - choose Corrour
> CalzoneGolem
03/30/2020 at 18:07 |
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paint it black with flames
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CalzoneGolem
> pip bip - choose Corrour
03/30/2020 at 20:29 |
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It's like it's tearing ass around the yard but it's standing still.