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This is the best paint I've ever found for applying over slick surfaces like galvanized coatings, aluminum and stainless. They don't really tout that feature, but it adheres very well and stays on for years. I painted my older aluminum john boat with it about 10 years ago, still perfect. For new material, wipe it first with vinegar. We used to build hunting treestands out of electrical conduit which is galvanized, the vinegar first and then flat paint worked great. Parker sells a primer too.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Parker-D ... 734054.uts

-Ron

Looks like good stuff but camo wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

Actually, Barbara would fall down in a grand mal foaming fit if I painted anything in camo. She hates it!

Thanks though.

I was going to offer, as tongue in cheek, the thought of just using blue steel stove pipe and replacing it each season, it's cheap and shinny blue. However I have found a Simpson product called DuraVent that is black coated 24ga. steel 6"x48" for ~$20 at Home Depot. Simpson gives it a 100% replacement at up to 15yr. Don't know what it's coated with, but it's rated for wood stoves.
Camo:
I won a camo hat as a raffle prize at a our annual rural water meeting some time back. My wife would not let me ware is, said it lowered my IQ at least ten points. Gave it to my grand nephew, his dad thought we should have him do some math before and after he put it on to see if there was any truth to my wife's assumption. The test was not conclusive, and happily it appears to have had no long term adverse affect on the test subject.


May the Yule Nisen be good you all.

Dave

I love blued pipe but my stack is some odd size around eight inches. I wonder how they blue steel?

With guns it is a salt solution that kills small animals at a distance I think.

Off to the tender mercies of Google . . . . .

"camo wasn't exactly what I had in mind."

Me neither I meant use it as a base primer for another color.

Speaking of stacks: This spring I plan on chucking the 12" diameter 1/8th inch wall steel tube I use for the stack on the tug. Going to get one rolled with lap out of light gauge aluminum and then somehow rivet it up with dome head rivets. And then get it flat black powder coated. Should remove about 75 pounds off the roof. It's a bit of a struggle to get up and down.

Merry Christmas folks.

-Ron

DetroiTug wrote:"camo wasn't exactly what I had in mind."

Me neither I meant use it as a base primer for another color.

Speaking of stacks: This spring I plan on chucking the 12" diameter 1/8th inch wall steel tube I use for the stack on the tug. Going to get one rolled with lap out of light gauge aluminum and then somehow rivet it up with dome head rivets. And then get it flat black powder coated. Should remove about 75 pounds off the roof. It's a bit of a struggle to get up and down.

Merry Christmas folks.

-Ron

And Merry Christmas to you!

I use aluminum round head rivets on our Airstream; you need a 3x rivet gun, a domed anvil and something to buck with. For a stack, I'd use a long piece of heavy pipe or solid bar. Vintage Trailer Supply has the rivets (and gun, but I'd try to borrow one), which are dead soft. If you're in salt water, use either 6061 or 5000 series alloys to help avoid corrosion issues.

I'd line it w/ 22 or 24 gauge stainless, but tastes vary .

- Bart

Actually I've got no problems with Pop rivets. Hmm. Now to find out of the powder coater near me can do high temp coatings.

Since this is the active thread at the moment, Seasons Greetings,Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc from Nyitra and myself!

-CB

Happy Christmas, and Happy first day of Hanukkah

"high temp coatings"

Looks like the upper limits for powder coat is around 350, above that as Bart mentions, a liner should be used.

-Ron