Por-15

TyCorr · Jul 18, 2016

Vader's Fury said:
I am looking to paint the bottom of my cab when I have it off the frame later this month. Would the KBS work for that? Was looking at the web site and it looks like it would.

Just starting to get a little rust in a few places and want to handle it before it gets out of control.

With the winters here in MD, if i don't handle it soon, there will not be much left to save LOL

Yea Robert. I did two of my doors to see and its been two months, no rust activity. Sand it, use the kbs kleen, then the rust blast, the rust stop paint then whatever yourvtop coat is.

Diesel_Brad · Jul 24, 2016

Just showing my $0.02 into this thread. I have been using POR15 for the past 8? Years with decent results. I do NOT paint over rust. I sandblast to BARE metal, SPRAY 2 coats of POR15, then SPRAY 2 coats of Valspar tractor lo-glare black as a topcoat. it has worked pretty well, even on trucks that see salt 6 months of the year.

1st. it HAS to go over HEAVILY rusted metal, you know the scaly rough stuff. Just knock the big chunks off, and use their metal ready stuff.

2nd. it is UV sensitive. Don't think that since your frame is under the truck, it doesnt get hit by sunlight, it DOES

3rd. If you are going to topcoat it,do it while the POR15 is still tacky, if not the POR15 drys so hard, NOTHING will stick to it.

NOW, with that said, I have gotten away from POR15 and have moved to MASTER SERIES on my recent projects. It is the same basic principle as POR15 just that it is more user friendly. It Can go over top of paint(POR15 cannot), but it does need to be thoroughly sanded 1st. But again, I Sandblast Everything 1st, SPRAY 2 coats of master Series, then SPRAY 2 coats of Valspar tractor lo-glare black as a topcoat.

The only "bad" thing I have seen with the master series is that it Only comes in silver. And when spraying over freshly sandblasted metal, it is difficult to distinguish what is painted and what is not. Other than that, I am VERY pleased with how it works and I will continue to use it.

Here are some examples of some POR15 projects

What I started with

Before sandblasting

Sandblasted

POR15 and topcoat(yes I had body up to sandblast and paint)

Going back together

Bottom of cab sandblasted

Then for and topcoat

Some of the finish with the valspar topcoat

All Done

Diesel_Brad · Jul 24, 2016

And here is the same process but with Master series

Inner wheel well with arch supports removed

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Sandblasted

MASTER SERIES(looks like sandblasted metal)

Valspar lo glare black(shinny because it is still wet, also note drain holes in arch supports)

zilla68 · Jul 24, 2016

Valspar lo glare black
where do you get this at?

Diesel_Brad · Jul 24, 2016

zilla68 said:
Valspar lo glare black
where do you get this at?

Tractor supply USED to carry it and before they replaced it with their JUNK Majic paint I bought all they had. But if you google it, I believe you can get it on Amazon