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Has anyone used the POR-15 inc. rust preventing paint, epoxy putty, Por-Patch or other products from them?
Tom

yes, very good.

Which product did you use and how long has the item been rust free? Any complaints at all?
Tom

Excellent stuff...

Has some peculiarities to it...

It cures differently.
If you open the can, use all of the can.
If you have air left in the can it will skin over and harden.
(Poking a hole through the skin to use more will make the prettiest little geyser shot.

Keep this stuff off of your skin. It doesn't come off easily.
(You can always spot a POR guy in a restaraunt )

Ventilation ventilation ventilation.
This stuff is nasty to your lungs

It likes wire brushed surfaces better than sandblasted surfaces.

Keep it out of the sun when drying. It will haze on you.

I buy mine in quart cans and transfer it to squeaky clean quart oil bottles for easy re-use.

(I used their silver header paint on sandblasted headers. Followed all the wierd heat and cool instructions, and still had crappy looking peeling headers in about a month..)

Their 2 part epoxy blocks are awesome. Huge, but awesome.

Hope the info helps.
POR15 is worth the money...
Jeff

Originally posted by Tall Tom
Has anyone used the POR-15 inc. rust preventing paint, epoxy putty, Por-Patch or other products from them?
Tom

What I do that seems to keep it from skinning over is when i go to use it i never open the can,, that's a big mistake if you ask me... I just drill 2 1/8th" holes in the lid at opposite sides,,, one for pouring and the othe for air, when i'm done i put self tapping screws in the top.. I've never had a problem this way when going to reuse, and the only way I ever buy it is in the gallons, when you need to reuse if you can't get the screws out, simply drill more..lol
I like there stuff for the most part, it is impossible to get off of skin though, Por patch is nice, as far as rust prevention goes, seems to be ok, better than most other things, but I usuallly try to make things pretty darn clean before i use por15, leaving rust on something doesn't seem right to me.. lol... I like using it on door bottoms when doing door bottom repairs as it's hard to get ever angle clean,,, i'll put POR 15 on so that way it can run in the crevices, then POR patch after POR 15 is dry,, seems to work good. Used their header paint on the triumph i've restored, haven't seen it peel off yet, but it probably doesn't have 20hrs on it yet,, hopefully it doesn't do anything stupid.. argh..

Anyways over all I really like their stuff, and can't seem to find anything that does the same job better, but nothing ever seems to be perfect.

one more thing when you brush it on it seems to level itself out rather nicely...

hope all this helps.