Hi,
I took a door card off the car I am restoring, at the top there is a metal brace piece. At some point the car window must have been left open and it must have got wet and rusted.
I took a wire wheel and a prep disk to the stamped metal piece and remove all of the surface rust, and then I removed the paint with stripper. The piece has quite heavy pitting, and the pitting still seems to have rust in it that the prep disk has failed to remove.
So I tried using evapo-rust, the piece is too big for me to dip, so I've used the method where you wrap it paper towels, then soak that in evapo-rust. I feel like that has removed some of the rust, but clearly not all. I've repeated this and feel like I am more or less in the same place.
So what would you do at this point? Would you feel comfortable using a Rust converter, like Jenolite, on the residual rust, and then just paint and prime it - or will the rust just come back in short order? If the part is well painted, shouldn't that stop any more oxidisation from happening?
Once the door car is put back together then it won't be visible, so a scruffy finish isn't the end of the world, but if it rusts again I might not be able to find out.
I took a door card off the car I am restoring, at the top there is a metal brace piece. At some point the car window must have been left open and it must have got wet and rusted.
I took a wire wheel and a prep disk to the stamped metal piece and remove all of the surface rust, and then I removed the paint with stripper. The piece has quite heavy pitting, and the pitting still seems to have rust in it that the prep disk has failed to remove.
So I tried using evapo-rust, the piece is too big for me to dip, so I've used the method where you wrap it paper towels, then soak that in evapo-rust. I feel like that has removed some of the rust, but clearly not all. I've repeated this and feel like I am more or less in the same place.
So what would you do at this point? Would you feel comfortable using a Rust converter, like Jenolite, on the residual rust, and then just paint and prime it - or will the rust just come back in short order? If the part is well painted, shouldn't that stop any more oxidisation from happening?
Once the door car is put back together then it won't be visible, so a scruffy finish isn't the end of the world, but if it rusts again I might not be able to find out.