Works really nice as a semi permanent clear coat for bare metal.This stuff made our slightly faded jeep hard top look brand new and is holding up great for months now.Only time will tell how long it will last, Applied this Flood product and now it looks completely brand new. I have a 2003 Jeep Wrangler that the hard top was faded.Used this as a tip from an old spa guy that said he wipes it on faded plastic cabinets and they revive.I use this to treat steel items I build that may go outside.
Also great at rejuvenating old wood, adhering paint, making paint on more easily.I used it to restore the shine of vintage Eames fiberglass chairs.I mix it about 50/50 with mineral spirits and wipe it on the surface I use it is to renew the powder coat finish on my aluminum patio furniture every year.
Very few people actually added the Penetrol to oil based paints, the original use for this product. They may give you a few ideas for how you can use this product. The Penetrol was originally made to be ” added to exterior alkyd and oil-based paints to help prevent brush marks and leveling problems without cutting the paint”. I purchased mine on Amazon, I also found it at Lowe’s. This is the secret ingredient I found to stop the rust and preserve the patina. The only problem is, it leaves your piece with a flat black coating. Rustoleum Rust Reformer claims to stop the rust and “instantly transform it into a nonrusting surface”. I wanted to seal my tray and stop the rust but still preserve the rusty look.
#RUST PATINA TRUCK FREE#
I seem to have a lot of those these days.Īfter sanding, wipe off your surface with a lint free cloth. And I just happened to have a nice face mask lying around. With all that rust flying around, it was best to do the sanding outside. I could have left it as it was, but I wanted to reveal some of the original metal and have a nice non pitted surface.įor other projects, I may have embraced the pits, but for this project I’m whipping out my trusty sander. My rusty tray didn’t have much patina left, it was just one solid piece of rust.
Even if the pots leaked, the tray probably couldn’t get rustier than it already was. This tray spent the past year sitting in the sun holding half a dozen indoor house plants. 😆 It’s everything I look for in a flea market find…it’s neglected, it’s old, it’s rusty and it was begging for me to take him home…yes, it did speak to me. It was a flea market find that my sister was first to spy, but I was the first to pull my wallet out. The steel is rusty and likely part thin, but who knows, maybe there is some stuff that can be used to help out the sleeper cab.Īt the end of the day both of these cabs are ROUGH with a capital rust but who sure hope that someone out there has the gusto and the giant piles of money to make them into some bad ass stuff.I’ve had this rusty tray sitting around the house for over a year now. There appears to be an engine and transmission left but that’s about it. The second cab is very little left of it, not even a frame as that was torched off just past the end of the cab. Even at rest, this thing is not exactly deluxe accommodations. Adding to the awesome is that the “complete” truck has a rarely seen sleeper cab attached to the back of it! Today’s sleepers rival rolling apartment buildings but these were basically little cubes were a guy could sleep…provided he was not diving as a team and being bounced out of the rack by every bump in the road.
Most rigs of the era were all angular and kind of awkward in their own cool way but the curves and shapes that these trucks have going on are beyond compare for their era. These White trucks were made in the 1950s and 1960s and their design is some whimsically cool that it is pretty amazing to think that they were working trucks. There’s such an incredible level of talent in the metalworking world these days these things could give up whatever bones they have left to an array of the amazing fabricators and car builders that exist in the industry today and end up as something amazing. I look at these two old, rusted, thrashed White Cabover cabs and see insane potential for greatness. Maybe I have completely lost my mind and maybe I have been completely spoiled by getting to see a lot of neat stuff over my time in the high performance aftermarket but then again, maybe I am not.
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