My First Neptune Adventure-- The Smelly Washer

[fordtech]

Combo, I dont know how well the powdercoat would hold up in a washer for sure, but it does hold up pretty darn well on the mowers considering they are exposed to lawn chemicals and wet grass stuck to the surface for extended periods. It would be a very interesting project to try. Only problem is the cost is pretty high on some things what with surface preparation and such. Your Expoxy paints may be more economical depending on how long the powder coat held up. It looks very similar to porcelin though.

3 beltwesty that is a very interesting discovery! That rust bullet I have never seen before. Ill have to see if I can find some. Looks like it would be great for outdoor equipment as well. Ill be sure to wear gloves if possible with it!
Im glad you were able to find a new tub front for your machine! Looks like a tough one to find parts for. One nice thing about the neptune, there are hundreds of parts for it on Ebay on any given week.

 

[3beltwesty]

google POR15 and Rust Bullet and Eastwood

Fordtech,

POR15 and Rust Bullet and Eastwood make products hawked for cars, trucks and heavy equipment to use on rusty steel. I think the way POR15 and rust bullet works is it sticks so well the corrosion tends to stop. These three companies are mentioned on many threads about old cars and rust.

With the rust bullet I got, I got kit(s) for 20 bucks each that have two dinky 4oz tin cans, two brushes, gloves.

It is not a product what you open, 1/2 use then use a year later.

About any stray product that gets dropped on one's clothes, glasses, hands and has to be worn off. About nothing will remove it. Thus if the object to be covered is cleaned off the stuff sticks real well.

A friend that fixes up old cars uses POR15 and says it is better than Rust Bullet, I am not sure. Both products are all over the web and Ebay too.

I have used rust bullet on my 1985 Toro mower too.

The failure mode with any repair is there is still corrosion going on under the fancy paint job, this is quite common. Rust can be a cancer and one does not remove it all , and many coatings actually trap moisture and feed the old corrosion one missed. I think the theory with POR15 and rust bullet is the barrier is better, thus any tale tail rust is not helped.

 

[fordtech]

Ive heard of POR15 many times. I havent ever used it though.
About 30 years ago when I worked for Nissan we had some spray on rust stopper. We had a problem with rust forming between the layers of sheet metal on the hoods and they sent us some of it and that stuff did a super job of stopping the rust in its tracks... I havent a clue what it was called any more though. It had a consistency of laquer.

 

[fordtech]

Another reason I havent used stuff like that is because I have lived in SW Oklahoma for the past 18 years and we just dont get much rust down here compared to when I lived in Kansas City and where they salted the roads in the winter. Down here in Oklahoma we usually just sand the roads since we only get a few inches a year.