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Ole Jim could use some advice...

Jimway

Jimway

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Hello to all of you. Does anyone have suggestions for refinishing the reverse bucket on the sport jet? It has some small areas of surface corrosion. Is there any particular primer or paint that you recomend? Thanks for any help you may send my way.
 
Find a machine shop that does spray welding .. they can spray the area with nickel then sand the area and paint. I just sprayed a set of ram horn exaust manifolds that were pitted and they turned out great they were going on a rat rod we sprayed them to stop them from rusting as the car is seldom driven. The nickel looks way better than rust .. LOL if you need more info message me and I will give you what I can ..
 
Thanks for the info WB. The reverse bucket is manufactured of aluminum and painted black. It has no pitting, just some areas where the paint is flaking away. Previous owner left vessel outside:shakehead:. As befitting a Checkmate, she is now indoors in heated garage. I have given thought to media blasting to bare metal and repaint or maybe polishing it and clearcoat. I am leaning toward paint for ease of maintnence. What do you think? Thanks.
 
Thanks again for the reply WB. Now that nightly Southern Comfort session is in progress the idea of Chrome Plating has come up again. Have you ever tried the spray cans available from Mercury? Still leaning toward paint, trips to chrome shop always seem expensive. I think I'm going to need the funds for fuel this season. Thanks again.
 
If you go the way of paint, there will be nothing more durable than
powder coating. Make sure you blast the part with 00 blast media,
it is not too coarse and will give good adhesion for the coating.

I used it on my windshield frame, then snapped the cover clips back on
with no chipping.
 
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