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Feb 19, 2016

Smooth White Bed Liner Paint For Tode Paint?

For anti-rust.

It ain't cheap - $180.00 per gallon and it's thick so a gallon doesn't go very far.

But for horizontal surfaces like roof, deck lid and hood, plus around the fenderwells (might go with a foot wide textured Black bed liner there), the polyurethane paint might be a winner.

No, the tode ain't a looker. And a few gallons of asphalt-based undercoating will snot everything up below.

I'm going to grind up a couple of pounds of zinc and shoot it into the voids. About the consistency of coarsely ground coffee.

Snuffy Smith, anti-corrosion treatment No 9

A tropical ocean and stiff trade winds make for a tough life for steel.

PS: Pure anhydrous LANOLIN available at the Pharmacist's counter, smeared onto Chrome plating makes for superb protection. Wipe a lip-wide smear behind the chrome to protect the edges.

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  • If the steel surface is free of rust, a good primer and urethane paint is a good combination. I paint some ammonia and other subzero tanks with that combination. I'd steer clear of bedliner, it is a difficult material to use and bond strengths are all over the map. Zinc primers are good for salt water environs. Almost as good as the red lead we used onboard some of the vessels I painted.

    FWIW, when the BIL worked at the Ford plant, prior to taking delivery of his new Galaxy, he and his line-mates poured motor oil in all the cavities they could. While other Galaxies rusted through the rocker panels, door seams, and headlight cowlings, that Ford never rusted.

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