How to paint an Aluminum Travel Trailer
Just bought a 20' 1985 Yellowstone travel trailer. We just finished redoing the entire inside from floor to ceiling. But this spring we want to tackle the exterior.I have searched and searched online ...
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X2 what IVYLOG says... Zinc Chromate Primer is what was used on my life long work history with the Naval Space Surveillance Aluminum antenna arrays spread across the bottom part of the US. We had around 17-miles of aluminum antenna structures to maintain.
This application kept them all in great working conditions over the past 50 years...
How this would adapt to fancy painting decors of RV Aluminum Trailers would be the bigger question I suspect. The Zinc Chromate Primer will cover all of the aluminum metal with a deep gray appearance which is how we left the antenna structures. Painting over the deep gray primer with fancy painting schemes would be the next challenge.
Don't imagine a deep gray RV trailer would be very appealing to the wife...
Roy Ken
This application kept them all in great working conditions over the past 50 years...
How this would adapt to fancy painting decors of RV Aluminum Trailers would be the bigger question I suspect. The Zinc Chromate Primer will cover all of the aluminum metal with a deep gray appearance which is how we left the antenna structures. Painting over the deep gray primer with fancy painting schemes would be the next challenge.
Don't imagine a deep gray RV trailer would be very appealing to the wife...
Roy Ken
