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My tube chassis is almost rolling and we will be moving our attention to prepping the shell for the chassis.
As the chassis has not been tagged yet it has no paint on the tubing.

Although the workshop is dry the tubing is starting to develop surface rust. How can I combat this?
Don't want to paint it until its been tagged as they will probably not like that?

Any help appreciated.
Lee

Mine did that especially around the welds so I painted that bit the guys were not bothered about that but cheated and had the whole thing blasted and expoy coated

coat it thinly in oil or some kind of wax...?

Permanent anti rust = owatrol oil. Just use a piece of cloth and apply. Very easy. Not so permanent, a cloth with some WD40. I have used bare chromoly parts on my suspension and have used Owatrol oil. Not a sign of rust after 4 years.

Best rgs
BB

i thought you were scrapping it cos i was thinking about building one  :D

Lee, I used wd40 on the cage in my old car. Never got around to painting it...

WD40 works great on parts we machine and are bare. but like Kalle pointed out, it won't last. but it will dissolve the rust and it is easily if used with a fine grid sandpaper, wiped away with WD40, but it will leave marks anyway.

thanks for the tip Kalle, i want to look into the product you mentioned as sometimes it would come in handy both at work as on my car.  ;D

Here to help Nicolas  ;)

http://www.owatrol.com/index.php?langue=en&page=produits-rustol-owatrol

-BB-

thanks!

Reality and dreaming about it are two different things  :D

Thank you everyone for the advice. Looks like I have a solution.
Lee

Lee

Gibbs oil

available in a large spray can and is about £18 per can, works a treat on my mag spider mags. keeps them nice for 6 months outside in all weathers and can be painted over once dry. ;)

http://www.getgibbs.com/2013/how-to-prepare-bare-metal-for-paint-with-gibbs/

there some more info in off topic

regards Ron

Definately this stuff.

Did a whole chromoly cage and chassis rails + lots of other bits of bare metal. It's only been 6 months or so but no rust, still great, and apparently you can paint over it. I'm sceptical about that bit though....

Der Wiger Coupe is bare metal treated with Owatrol:

(http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22340.0;attach=82754;image)

(http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22340.0;attach=82750;image)

(http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22340.0;attach=83711;image)

(http://www.vwnorge.no/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22340.0;attach=83590;image)

You can mix Owatrol with paint, paint over it or remove it rather easily with White Spirit. The choice is yours. Pictures borrowed from Splitman and posted by him on our Norwegian forum.

Thanks Ron,
Great pictures of the bare metal beetle. Might try both. Half and half on the chassis and report my findings.

My Dad has produced some lovely welds on the chassis so maybe I won't paint it ever if this stuff works as well as it should do!
Lee

looks like either will do the job, be interesting to see which one works best. Be a shame to cover your dads work lee , i know I've seen it and its the dogs  :)

I recently had a Chromo cage put in by Jim at Cotsweld... I painted the whole thing with industrial chassis black, this caused no issues when getting it tagged at The Pod.

Not to mention it smooths off to give a cracking finish.

Jas.