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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:28:44 EDT
Subject: Re: [T3] Jim you were so right (was: Floor pan replacement)
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In a message dated 04/23/2001 8:09:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
PunkDork55@aol.com writes:

> Im planning on using POR-15 on my pans, but i have to replace a patch 
first.. 
> passenger side, right behind the front seat, and also i was thinking of 
>  using the POR-15 on the bottom of the pans and also on the inside of the 
> rear fenders. Do you think this would be a good idea?  my inner fenders are 
> gettin rusty...
>  
    Right now I'm in the middle of refurbishing my floorpan.  I bought 
por-15's Floorpan resto kit.  I'm making progress on it.  So far I have the 
topside LH rear and topside RH front painted with one coat of black and 
tonight I finished prepping the rest of the topside and will be laying down a 
coat of silver in the LH front and RH rear areas tomorrow.  Naturally, the 
battery tray area and wet driver's feet areas are rustier; the silver they 
put in the kit is for the rougher areas.  Then I gotta smooth things out 
before laying down another coat of por 15 and then the semi-gloss black 
topcoat.
    I though I would be further along by now, It's been slow going cleaning 
the crud from my pan --  that's a lot harder than painting!  Anybody know any 
tricks to removing the original tar sealer?!  That stuff is a pain to clean 
off!
    There's more than enough paint in the kit I bought to do do the whole pan 
very well.  They include a topcoat paint that is semi gloss black to topcoat 
the exposed / visible treated areas (ie underside, under backseat). I' may 
end up with enough stuff left over to do my inner aprons and possibly lower 
inner fenders, too!
    I gotta say,  Iv'e been really impressed so far with the the stuff.  Even 
without topcoat, the stuff looks great and is really tough!
    For my own little experiment, I took a section of rusted out floor that 
was sitting on a shelf in my garage and painted it.  After it cured I beat 
the hell out of it with a four pound hammer on concrete until the metal 
fatigued and broke.   The paint stood up!!
    I had to do some sort of "show me" experiment myself to assure myself it 
was worth the trouble and expense!  
                                ---  Mike T.
                            1964 Notchback 1500s