"Neil Arlidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My only comment, from rather a lot of experience of rust in cars and on >boats.... >get rid of it! >If it is heavily crusted and access for a grinder is impossible, a cheaper >option for the long term could well be to get the bottom of the lockers grit >blasted or needle gunned.
Hence my advice to use a passivator such as Fertan. All that is needed is to remove the loose rust (a wire brush will do that), then paint the stuff on. It converts the rust into a harmless (and even beneficial) phosphate. Amazing stuff, actually. Looks like milk in the container, but when you apply it it turns bright blue, then cures to black. It isn't weather-proof, so needs painting over, which is why I put a red oxide primer on top and then some paint of an unfashionable colour (surely we all have some of that in the back of a cupboard somewhere). Make it easy on yourself. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
