The POR-15 thread

[Bob Carriere]

Nothing hold a top coat of paintr over POR 15 better than using there baby bllue polymer tie coat...... or you can give a chassis black as a top coat as it is intended specifically to adhere to POR 15.

The tie coat is ideal as it is thick and self leveling so will fill little pits..... and is sandable and can be recoated again if you still find too many pits in the metal.

On the lids sticking....two solutions.....one use a plastic spacer..... half of a sandwich bag....... second consider decanting the full can in two 500ml mason jars...... and use a plastic bag to keep the jar ring from glueing on the glass. The POR has a tendency to harden if too much air is trapped inside the can...... decanting in smaller jars prevents that situation.

I use "gun clean" or regular gasoline to clean the guns...... and boxes of blue nitrile disposable gloves.... also use disposable cheap paint brushes.

Happy coating....as technically POR is not a paint.

Cheers

Bob

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Nothing hold a top coat of paintr over POR 15 better than using there baby bllue polymer tie coat...... or you can give a chassis black as a top coat as it is intended specifically to adhere to POR 15.

The tie coat is ideal as it is thick and self leveling so will fill little pits..... and is sandable and can be recoated again if you still find too many pits in the metal.

On the lids sticking....two solutions.....one use a plastic spacer..... half of a sandwich bag....... second consider decanting the full can in two 500ml mason jars...... and use a plastic bag to keep the jar ring from glueing on the glass. The POR has a tendency to harden if too much air is trapped inside the can...... decanting in smaller jars prevents that situation.

I use "gun clean" or regular gasoline to clean the guns...... and boxes of blue nitrile disposable gloves.... also use disposable cheap paint brushes.

Happy coating....as technically POR is not a paint.

Cheers

Bob

While pitting is not that much of a problem in this part of the country as it is out East, I still may give the tie coat a try, depending on the long term results of my current system.

Unfortunately Canadian tire does not carry the top coat yet so I would have to pick it up at Rondex in Winnipeg. I find their stock of POR-15 products s somewhat hit and miss.

[Lynn Eades]

When you have used it, put some glad wrap (plastic) over the can , pushing the centre down into the can to use up the air space, then put the lid on. This will leave the paint with little air over the top and a plastic barrier between the can and the lid (making the por-15 last and the lid easier to remove)

On the down side; I put it in the joints in my carrier hull. When the hull was blasted the POR-15 was not blasted away as I expected, leaving an ugly fillet in the gap.

[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