[Milsurplus] Painting Aluminum - BC-348 in particular

[Peter Gottlieb]

Easier to throw insults at political parties you don't like than to use 
Google?

http://www.marinenutz.com/products/5606%20YELLOW%20ZINC%20CHROMATE%20PRIMER.html

Off-the-shelf available, has been for as long as I remember, used all 
the time in marine applications.

Peter



WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> That's probably Zinc Chromate primer.  I don't think you can buy it anymore 
> thanks to the obamonkeys running EPA.
>
> However, my experience with painting BC-611 and other parts the last few 
> years is that Rustoleum red oxide primer works well.  And you don't often have 
> the nozzle clog problem common to zinc chromate.  Bead blast or sand the 
> surface immediately before priming.  I have no longevity figures, though.
>
> On the subject specifically of black wrinkle finish paint, I recent got a 
> testimonial from a customer who had painted the cabinet of an ARB.  He found 
> a paint new to him (and to me) at Auto Zone and another auto parts place 
> that didn't register (Advance Auto PArts) as there aren't any in Houston.  Made 
> by VHT  Products Co. in Cleveland, P/N SP-201.  He said that it worked 
> great.  The downside was it required oven time.  However, I would suspect that 
> about 14:00 outdoors on a summer afternoon in either Houston or Austin might 
> be a reasonable substitute.  I haven't tried it yet myself but it reportedly 
> yields a fine wrinkle, not the coarse stuff from what Pep Boys and some 
> others sell.
>
> In a message dated 5/13/2010 9:46:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> olegerityincj at austin.rr.com writes: 
>   
>> The black wrinkle tex paint I applied many years ago never cured it 
>> remained soft/slightly sticky.  So I am removing the bad paing job and 
>> starting over.
>>
>> That being said I noticed that there is a green chromate primer layer;  
>> Is this a paint or a immersion coating?
>>
>>     
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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