3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Since I live about 7 miles from the beach there is high humidity and hint of salt air which tends to make things rust faster. As previously mentioned, I recently bought a new Champion C46540 generator. I'm thinking about painting all of the non painted metal on the C46540 to try to prevent/retard rust.
QUESTIONS:
1. For folks who own the C46540, have you found that the unpainted metal rusts? If so, which parts?
2. Anyone know of a "brush-on" paint that is gas and heat resistant? Brand and model? (I bought a heat resistant spray paint from Checkers thinking I would spray it in a small can and brush it on the generator. Luckily happened to paint a gas can first and when I filled the gas can after 2 days of drying, the paint dissolved like butter on a hot knife.)
EDIT-2: I screwed up so I deleted EDIT-1! This morning I was cleaning up the stuff on our garage floor and found another spray can of paint. I think that I used that spray paint on my gas cans instead of the paint from Checkers since the can from Checkers still seems to be full (by shaking). I am going to respray the gas cans with the engine paint from Checkers and see what happens.
QUESTIONS:
1. For folks who own the C46540, have you found that the unpainted metal rusts? If so, which parts?
2. Anyone know of a "brush-on" paint that is gas and heat resistant? Brand and model? (I bought a heat resistant spray paint from Checkers thinking I would spray it in a small can and brush it on the generator. Luckily happened to paint a gas can first and when I filled the gas can after 2 days of drying, the paint dissolved like butter on a hot knife.)
EDIT-2: I screwed up so I deleted EDIT-1! This morning I was cleaning up the stuff on our garage floor and found another spray can of paint. I think that I used that spray paint on my gas cans instead of the paint from Checkers since the can from Checkers still seems to be full (by shaking). I am going to respray the gas cans with the engine paint from Checkers and see what happens.
