[TheForge] Epoxy PRIMER?

Tue Jan 15 12:08:59 2002

        Hello Fred,  I also use the Benjamin Moore product line with great
success.  I use the gray primer for interior painted work as it covers
faster, and the red like you mentioned outside.
        I also find the wrought iron black is a great color and holds up
better than the flat black.  The flat is sort of pourous and seems to hold
water or stay wet longer.  The wrought iron black is a low luster paint that
gives great coverage and last a couple years without needing maintenance so
far as I can see.
        The other way to go is with the Rustoleum "reddish in color for
rusted surfaces"  as this product is really thick and stops all the small
rust from going anywhere.  I use this on new metal on rails around swimming
pools and it has held up well.  After this primer from rustoleum, I go with
the same wrought iron black from Benjamin Moore.   Rustoleum offers a primer
for new metal, but it's bit more for the rusted metal primer - but has
worked great on new metal, as that always comes thru with some surface rust
on it from what I've seen.

Ralph Sproul - Bear Hill Blacksmith
Webster, NH


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Faller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Epoxy PRIMER?


> In my search for the best coating, I ended up at
> Benjamin Moore and talked with them. They recommended
> the rustoleum flat black with a primer. I boutght 1/2
> pint of each for tests. The primer is the color of red
> clay kinda like the old red-lead paints used on boat
> hulls. I used it on some hooks I made for a cottage on
> an island in Maine on the coast and after two years,
> it is unchanged. I will check again this summer. The
> guys at the store said it was the best they had for
> treating outdoor iron.
>
> Goes on kinda thick and looks painted however. Not
> like oil finished iron.
>
> Frederick
> --- Roy Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I got a stumper.  What the heck is the *primer* for
> > EPOXY
> > based paints?  I've even called Benjamin Moore (they
> > make quite the
> > line of pigmented sprayable/brush/roller/etc epoxy
> > based paints)
> > and was told "Hmm...  good question.  Let me find
> > out ... (awful
> > muzak for five minutes) beep! click!  dial tone....
> >
> >
> >
> > Roy Wilson
> > General Operations Director
> > Wilson Eclectics
> >
> >
> >
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