The POR-15 thread

[Bob Carriere]

I have had to remove POR 15 on a few occasion..... sand paper gets gummed up very fast the only solution is slow sandblasting..... the POR seems to slowly peel and roll in front of the sand....... will also gum up bolt threads but can be cleaned up with a tap and die.

Cheers

[rob love]

I have not had to sandblast it yet, but I hear it is a bigger.

One of my favorite uses for the stuff is on rims. I just finished the 7 split rims for my deuce. Sandblasted, POR-15, then painted with the gillespie semi gloss makes for a nice smooth surface to install the fresh rubber.

I had a tractor tire blow it's inner tube last year, and it leaked the calcium for quite a while before I got around to changing it. Of course by then the calcium had eaten through the rim. After sandblasting (and the sandblaster will not lie about rust through) I patched the holes, ground them smooth, and then gave a heavy coat of the POR-15. Should it happen again, hopefully the POR15 will have done it's job and protected the rim from any deterioration. It's an old tractor, but it's the only one I got.

I use it on just about every rim I take apart at the museum. Time will tell if it's the correct move. It will be nice for the next guy doing tires that he will not be having to take a chipping hammer to the rim before assembly.

[Bob Carriere]

The split rims once sandblasted andcoated with glossy POR 15 simplify tire installation by 90%. At the barn we nopw do the reinstall oursleves using the tire snothy lubricatant a commercial tire dealer gave me....half a 5 gal bucket and we have no problems installing any 16 tire.... no shaving of the bead anymore.

Bob