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Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:26 pm

Hi
What Por 15 products have ou used on your vans?
I'm thinking about using their epoxy putty to fill the holes in my gate rails
(canvas top?) then the marine clean, metel prep and por 15 on the seams after removing the seam sealer and fillng the seams with Por patch?
Does this sound right?

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Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:09 pm

POR Patch is good for alot of things, but to fill the seams with it...

Hmm.

It does expand when curing and once it has cured to sand it is a bear.

Might want to think about using Alvin's High Temp Filler. get the reducer too, thin it about 10% and then fill. Might want to check a local woodworking shop for syringes or even a pastry bag.

Reason for the High Temp stuff is that the Reg. Alvins can only be heated up once ( if your welding...) and goes south after that.

Get the metal to Bright Shiney metal and then Metal ready. Use a Sray bottle and work it. Let it sit longer if needed. Will create a whitish residue. that is what needs to come off with the water rinse.

The Phosphate what it does is called ( I going into the crusty Brain Archives) Parkerizing method. The Zinc Phosphate and Phosphate combo in metal ready makes for a good tooth for the POR to adhere to.

The POR is expensive and wear a Class 1 resperator. The Stuff is NASTY to breath.

Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:45 am

I've had good results with the POR-15 metal treatments and Epoxy filler.
You can get a combo kit on Ebay for a reasonable price. Mine came with rubber gloves, two part epoxy filler, and these:

But DONT even bother with the POR high temp exhaust paint. Total BS.

This photo was taken less than two weeks after application

Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:40 pm

is that it, will it fill and seal crunchy small rust holes? any one else have pics of por 15 rust fixes? lovedavdubs wrote: I've had good results with the POR-15 metal treatments and Epoxy filler.
You can get a combo kit on Ebay for a reasonable price. Mine came with rubber gloves, two part epoxy filler, and these:

But DONT even bother with the POR high temp exhaust paint. Total BS.

This photo was taken less than two weeks after application

Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:35 pm

The POR-15 putty is nothing to write home about.

I restored a 66 Ford F-850 white steering wheel with their steering wheel restoration kit, and the cracks all re-appeared in a short time.

I sand blasted the wheel , filled the cracks, and sanded my butt off primed it with Uro Prime, and painted it with POR-15 white epoxy paint.

The work didn't bother me--it's the cracks showing back up that did---

The epoxy putty isn't all what it's advertsed to be.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:55 am

Quote: But DONT even bother with the POR high temp exhaust paint. Total BS.

Dead on...I busted my butt on two days worth of painting only to have it flake off, it can't take the heat, the POR-15 works, the high temp paint doesn't at all

Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:54 am

I used the POR Patch over the long weekend. It is a test run on the seams that I will be cover ing up when I spray the bottom quarter w/ bed liner spray. THe stuff is messy, I scraped out all the seams with a little pick and Dremled off all the rust, marine cleaned, metal readied, heat gun, and then sealed up the seams. Used the solvent immediately affter wards and it cleaned right up. Going to let it cure for 3 days... Next step i am going to tape the seam, use a fine little model car brush and apply POR -15 over the POR patchin the seam and the areams that had rust, then METAL ETCH, and then the factory matched paint, clear coat, liquid sand paper, then I'll buff it out with the Dremel to make it blend in with the old paint. If theis turn out good I am going to do the rest of the spots I am not covering up. My seam rust is pretty minor. I also hit every interior seem I could (entire interior is out). Also will do all the exterior seams as well if it works out good. Hope this helps someone out. I did about 3 months of research before actually doing this. :lol:

Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:28 am

I've used both POR-15 and Rust Bullet, and I had better results with Rust Bullet. With the POR-15 I followed the multi step process to the T and after a year or two rust appeared through the paint. Rust Bullet is a one step application process which is much much easier and, so far, has held up better than the POR-15.

Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:29 pm

Trusting any plastic solution leaves one open to disaster. Just do the real work to restore something and leave the plastic glop to the dumb f**ks that frequent the cheap auto parts places. Grinding, scraping, and sanding will soon yield a surface that can simply be painted to last as long as any miracle fix - and it will be able to be refreshed without heroic efforts.