Re; rust Por 15

["Mike DeLuca" <mdeluca@xxxx>]

I have seen a few postings regarding frame restoration and POR15. 
I spent the winter redoing my frame on the car and used Por 15.
I replied to a few people privately, because there seems to be 
interest in this subject I will reprint the responses.
Sort of long. 


Hi Greg,

I was hoping to start a thread so others would be privy to the 
discussion and also contribute there experience (I've ans. some other 
e-mails also). Let me know if you think we should post this? 

I'm doing the frame work in my garage with the car on jack stands (a 
lift would be nice...)
The wheels and the metal plate covering the gas tank (cant remember 
the name of the big metal cover) are about all I've had to 
disassemble. In the area you are describing I just used a die grinder 
and a 2"(the smaller the better) wire wheel and a scraper, you 
pick/scrape off as much epoxy as you can and use the wire wheel and 
try to get it down to bare metal as best you can.
Note: Many of the internal places you pry the epoxy off of you can't 
wire wheel thus you
just paint right over the rust with the por15 (it can go right 
over the rust as long as
it's not loose).
Let me clarify the part of the car I'm talking about, this would be 
the front lip of the frame that the metal gas tank cover rests on, if 
you are talking about the cover itself your best bet is to get a 
refurbished one from PJ Gradys about $100 with exchange I think, he 
doesn't even mess with them he sends them out and I think has them 
powder coated.

Then I paint it with two coats of por15 1st coat I use black then the 
gray so you can delineate the two and see were you have been (the
gray 
doesn't look too bad compared to original).

I hope this ans. your question, you can spend lots of time on this 
but(like I have and my frame is in good shape) but it's truly 
important if you want to preserve your car.

Regards,




Hi Nick,

I'm scraping the bad parts, I use a die grinder with a 2" wire wheel 
were I can reach and a screw driver in the internal places (front 
forks, were the steering rack bolts in etc.) Rob Grady added a 3/4" 
whole to gain access in the front (you add the whole on the bottom of 
the frame in the midpoint between the other 3/4" wholes that already 
exist)by the lower control arms.

I think the por 15 is great stuff! you want to transfer it into 
smaller containers once opened so there is less air contact with the 
stuff that's left over and ideally you get the second coat on while 
the 1st coat is still almost tacky.

I am using the gloss black for the first coat and then the gray so I 
can see were I have done the work already, the gray is a reasonably 
close match to the original gray so it looks good all by itself. I 
will have it finished in the original gray epoxy when I'm done.

Have lots of gloves handy when using the por 15.

Regards,

Mike
vin 3113
NY Lic DLORIANN