I picked up a little job to paint the inside of a baptism pool. I’t made of steel and has an old coat of paint that has begun to rust thru on it. I’ll have to sand out the rust spots, but then what type of primer and paint should I use? I’m told the pool gets used every few months at most and only has water in it for the baptism, rest of the time it should sit empty.
Thanks,
S
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My guess is that automotive paints might give you a good finish on steel. Or 2-part finishes.
http://www.petedraganic.com/
http://marine-paint.com/
I did not not read all of the details on it, but one needs to use caution on using a "marine" product.Many of the them contain anti-fungal and anit-marine life compounds. Don't want to be using them for something that some one is dipping in..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Sure Bill,
Let 'em keep their fungi, right? Baptism is meant to re-unite the individual with the Cosmos, not separate him from any micro-cosmic relatives.
Yeah, some marine paints are anti-fouling. Which IIRC means that they have copper flakes in them that break off and prevent algae from growing. Though when you buy marine paint you have to specify that you want that because it is quite a bit more expensive.
If you are in the tank painting it, will the highly toxic fumes kill you? I don't know, just wondering.
Edited 5/17/2007 12:55 pm by Sungod
Epoxy paint, any HD can fix you up if their real paint guy is in.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Lately I've had a spots of rust on steel medicine cabinets that I've fixed. the tennants put some sort of bottle on the painted steel and there can be a pretty badly rusted spot.
In the bathroom I use a lot of toilet bowl cleaner to get off built up deposits on the tub and toilets off so I reached for it when I had some rust. Why not?
The toiletbown cleaner has hydrocloric acid in it. Not much but enough. I use sponges with the green scrubber on them with the cleaner. The trick is to let the cleaner do most of the work. Wet all the rust fist and then go back and work on the spots in a circle. So you are scrubbing it and then you let it sit. Also, Keep water on hand so you can rinse it off after it has become dirty/contaminated. The combination of the acid, the scrubbing, and re-applying it will work on light rust.
Use gloves and ventilate with a fan. After you get it off you need to coat it with a primer from the automitive paint store. Paint that is in a rattle can should be fine.
You want to dry off the area and spary it right away as it will start to rust. You could use a hair drier to speed it up.