Thread: Lizard Skin on POR15

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Sean you could lightly sand the por 15, or coat over it when it just gets tacky to the touch. As far as self etching primers I would think they would work, but por 15 gets kind of slick and hard when dry. You might try experimenting on something small and see how it goes.

You know I think I was being kinda dumb, the POR15 rep. said I should use their primer so I guess I should. I heard of scuffing it but then I'm spraying about $400 worth of Lizard skin over it so I want to be sure it works. I actually found some of the primer and they threw it on the bus last night and I got a call already that it's in. Funny, one of the largest cities in Canada doesn't have any but a small town north of here has a distributer .
I bought one of those siphon feed sandblasters for $20 so I've been stripping off some of the rust, I'm gonna go get some sand today to see if it will remove the rust. I had some glass beed and some copper stuff but they don't seem to cut in very well.

Sean

Sean I had the very same problems with my blasting setup, so it's the old fashion way for me, sanding and grinding, but some stuff just doesn't come off. That's where the por 15 really is nice. It bonds like glue to rust. It doesn't like any greasy residue though. On my body panels I'm using one step rust converter, from Marhyde. It sprays on with a can and converts any residual rust to "black primer" which I think is zinc oxide. Works pretty good on my old truck. But a slow and tedious process for sure. Post some pictures as you go.

Also glad to hear you were able to find the POR primer. I bought my Metal 2 Metal online too, because I couldn't find it here over the weekend. A week later, I was at the local autopaint store(closed weekends), and noticed they sell Metal 2 metal and a lot of evercoat products, that none of the auto parts stores carry. So it takes a little longer, when I can't get in during the week to get what I want, but the guys there have been very helpfull!