Cold plating

wot do yooz guys use to cold galvanise yo motors after cleaning back to bare metal?

I have dde-rusted back to good metal, but want to plate the metal prior to priming and repainting.

cold galv paint is ****e, you are better off caking it in red oxide

wot have yu tried then?

Have used cold galv paint on parts of our boat trailer, which is often in the sea. It has stood up well, an could now do with anuvva coat after about 3 yrs.

I cant see wot red oxide (Lead) has over Zinc products. They both use the sacrificial anode? principle to protect the steel and a both heavy metal based paints.

Have you tried that stuff, Trewy and is it good?

Wot product did you use, DV?

Galvafroid
Rustoleum

or just Hammerite?

i used tetra shutz get it from most good motor factors and is really good.

I aint used it meeself, but bin told iss good by someone who used it on their boat launching trailer.

once i replated it, i is gonna respray the areas and then underbody Schultz it. - It wont rot again fur a week or two.

It may seem like overkill, but bear in mind I only use it for offroading, so it gets a lot of mud and muck forced in everywhere - I know - i had to remove it.

The headlights and front indicators had an inch of mud INSIDE them and the underwing areas were caked thick with Salisbury muck.

The Mad Hat Man said:

Wot product did you use, DV?

Galvafroid
Rustoleum

or just Hammerite?

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Will find out product name, came from a chandlers in a half litre tin. Bin bloody good stuff though, to survive bein dunked in the ogin like that, got to be worserer that a bit of a damp Disco.

Another one that I've used for years is Bonda Rust Primer + Zinc.
It's a resin based zinc and rust coating.

Arternoon Daft,

Bin to where the boat is and found this what we used.

Fosroc, Galvafroid. We got a 400ml tin for £13.99 from a chandler. Says it is suitable as a primer, so just what you're after then.

ta DV - Galvafroid is meant to be good.


that disco we was lookin at has gorn

Probably Zinga - used widely in the marine environment, but also for coating motorway crash barriers and numerous other everyday applications.

Zinga - Galvanic Protection

Nah, that Disco is back on again. was going to give the guy a call tonight