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I had a PM requesting information about how we commonly prep customer pans.

Here's a pix.



This pan was 100% stripped.. battery tray welded in.. 4 coats (sprayed of Zero Rust - on the satin black areas) etch primer+sealer and then 3M BodyShutz for noise control.

The dirty pan is from tugging it 300 miles to the photograph location.

Wow Tim! You towed this pan 300 miles just to take a pic!? What a guy.

This zero rust I am very interested in. You say that it's UV resistant unlike the POR products? I just may have to get a pint and see. More interested in spraying suspension parts on the Opel and VW's.

Not interested in the Body Shutz. Is it odd that I like road noise and the "ring" of a rust free and tight VW?

Dennis C~

Here is my pan sand blasted and primered.


Here it is will the Line-X added.

Dennis.

One of the cooler things about the Zero Rust setup is that it comes in Aerosol cans that is exactly the same stuff in the $55/gallon paint

Pans seem to always get dinged up during production.

It kind of bites to spend all the time taking a pan down to steel to end up gluing carpet back on it.

T.

I can photograph restoration pans in a few days..

Getting a six pack of cans, black. What do you think of the rust prep stuff? It's not like a requirement for adhesion is it?

POR needs that prep but, not so sure about this one.

All I have to do is buy it.

Dennis C~

The biggest draw back is that it takes a lengthy time to dry. As with every steel, prep is the key.

For a steel prep product, I'm a fan of Picklex20 this is never on sale.

Good thing about the black satin color is that it's super easy to scuff and touch up.

The pan on one of my cars is glossy enamel black - there's no way to touch it up successfully.

T.

i have made 2 pans (63 and one of my convertible )

after sand blasting






i prefer to cover them with por15 silver.









uv resistance is not an issue for floor pans as never face the sun directly..

one option is to sprey a coat of ordinary uv resistance colour on top of POR before dry.


after sand blasting nether por15 needs to make the 3step proceeder.
You can just paint directly with por15 on sand blasted area (i had this information directly from por15 company )


for the bottom of floor pans after por15 i apply and 2coats of ''hard nose '' paint.
it is a very strong paint that dont peal of from rocks...
(it is a por product)

recently i find and an other product that is very good as a primer ...

it is called ''red-brown'' from STANDOX company .

it is a very good german product so maybe this is more usefull to european members of stf