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General => Chatter => Topic started by: Tony on April 12, 2013, 08:24:17 PM
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Before I forget, 1l of metal paint is currently £4.99 in Aldi, including black.
Claims two coat for protection, no primer required. According to historical posts on the MIG welding forum it's way better than Hammerite.
Actually thinking of going back and buying more having read the reviews!
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How many have you bought?
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Just the one - though I'm wondering how far 1l will go over two coats? The can says 13.5m2 as a single coat, two coats required so I'd say three to be sure (4.5 sq.m)?
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Where do plan on using it...anywhere specific?
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Pipework, legs and welding on the new processor built. It's a 500l steel tank so a fair area to start with.
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I think i read a post from glycerides reporting that he had painted his processor in hammerite, but that it was NOT bio stable.
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I think i read a post from glycerides reporting that he had painted his processor in hammerite, but that it was NOT bio stable.
You are correct, Julian. It bubbles up as if coated with the old 'full fat' Nitromors.
On my 220L tank I used less than two small tins, ~ 375 mL.
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Well it's back in Aldi on Sunday, I think the stuff is absolute genius, and very good value. No idea on the WVO/bio resistance but it's impossible to beat price-wise for metal protection.
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sunday-specialbuys-25th-august/product-detail/ps/p/metal-care-paint/
I shall be stocking up, that's for sure.
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Oh Tony, why did you post that up ... I just looked at the page and then clicked Sundays special buys.
They are offering an inspection camera endoscope type for £70, Dilemma ... should I get one or not?
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Bollocks, that's discs, paint and seals i've got to buy now!
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Will be getting some for sure - just been plumbing in the rayburn with black iron pipe, and our trailer is brown'er than it was when we bought it!
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I'll be picking up some of the cutting/sanding discs too.
Julian I'm sure you really don't need to be looking up there, just stick with being a pumpophile!
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£72 that visit cost me!
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Not impressed with the black, very thin :(
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£72 that visit cost me!
shit
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Not impressed with the black, very thin :(
and hmmm not good.....
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I bought 2-off silver to do the trailer with, and 1-off black to do the black iron pipe on our rayburn with.
Have not opened them yet.
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Not impressed with the black, very thin :(
That's by design - you've only done one coat I'm guessing, and it will have set matt. Do a second coat and it'll sit thicker and dry to a gloss.
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Done two, will need a third
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I can get 1.5 litres of high quality metal paint for £8. One coat is plenty, just get the rust off. Clean metal or paint underneath and there is no problem. IMHO, the Aldi stuff isn't worth the money.
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I can get 1.5 litres of high quality metal paint for £8.
Where?
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I can get 1.5 litres of high quality metal paint for £8.
Where?
Local privately run hardware shop.
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Local privately run hardware shop.
A local shop! You'd better get a couple of Tubbs.
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Local privately run hardware shop.
A local shop! You'd better get a couple of Tubbs.
Local shop for local people. Anyway, I made a boo boo. I got given a 1.5 litre. The stuff I bought from the shop for £8 is 750ml. Still better than the Aldi stuff though, and way cheaper than hammerite.
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Regardless, I swear by the Aldi stuff, got metal things in the garden that aren't rusting to prove it :)
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Well I have two tins of the green Aldi stuff and am picking up a steel central heating oil tank next week to use it on.
A pensioner friend of my parents had a small leak appear in his steel tank. He then ended up paying over £2000 to have somebody replaced it with a plastic one. They must have seen him coming as the support structure they have built is rubbish, the tank isn't even positioned squarely (ie it just looks wrong when seen along with the hard landscaping features which are square) and the plumbing layout is rubbish too.
Anyway, they then wanted another couple of hundred pounds to get the tank and it's couple of hundred litres of remaining kero out of the garden (to which there is no vehicle access).
I, of course, have volunteered to relieve him of the tank and kero for free. The kero will go well with the palm bio in my heating and I need to cut down his tank to the correct size for a job I have in mind.