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Old 04-27-2005, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by immunity
I have similar rust problems.... but I dont see myself getting into fixing till late summer...in the interim are there any stop gap stop rust procedures....anything i can spray or apply to halt the decay... or stop it from spreading....im attaching a few small pics.... will send out the big ones when I undertake the project...
scrape the scaley rust.....sand it and use a rust converter or even rustoleom rusty metal primer....it will slow it down.....treat rust as you would cancer...doing nothing is the worst thing you can do..........even if it gets handled right in the summer do what you can now to slow or stop it.
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