Miker
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Advice please on best way to treat rust on an iron keel where I have touched bottom. Next year I tell myself I will manage to stay in deep water!.
Rust on keel
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philip_stevens
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Miker,
There were long discussions on this problem earlier in the year. There were also as many remedies.
My own remedy, that has so far lasted five years, is to grit blast the rusted area. Leave it bare for about a month to acquire a surface rust coat, and then apply NeutraRust 661. I applied it to my cast iron keels five years ago, and except for any area that has been knocked, there is no rust showing. In areas where it has been knocked, there is a slight rusting that I have recoated with NeutraRust, and antifouled over. I can even show you photos taken when the boat was pressure washed when she came out on November 1st.
NeutraRust is a non acid chemical that converts the rust to a hard black finish - almost like enamal. There is a website, and if you can do a search over the past year (on this site) type in NeutraRust or neutrarust, and read the comments.
I can get the address and phone number of NeutraRust (UK) and there is a website where you can read the manufacturers blurb on it. I think it is www.neutrarust.com.
If you only want a small amount of NeutraRust, I believe Screwfix Direct now sell it under a different name.
No matter what other comments you may get on here, I have used it and can confirm it does work. I found out about it from an article in PBO many years ago, where a builder of a steel hulled boat used it to good effect.
It must be good, as it is used on the bridges over the Hudson River to Manhattan.
regards,
Philip
There were long discussions on this problem earlier in the year. There were also as many remedies.
My own remedy, that has so far lasted five years, is to grit blast the rusted area. Leave it bare for about a month to acquire a surface rust coat, and then apply NeutraRust 661. I applied it to my cast iron keels five years ago, and except for any area that has been knocked, there is no rust showing. In areas where it has been knocked, there is a slight rusting that I have recoated with NeutraRust, and antifouled over. I can even show you photos taken when the boat was pressure washed when she came out on November 1st.
NeutraRust is a non acid chemical that converts the rust to a hard black finish - almost like enamal. There is a website, and if you can do a search over the past year (on this site) type in NeutraRust or neutrarust, and read the comments.
I can get the address and phone number of NeutraRust (UK) and there is a website where you can read the manufacturers blurb on it. I think it is www.neutrarust.com.
If you only want a small amount of NeutraRust, I believe Screwfix Direct now sell it under a different name.
No matter what other comments you may get on here, I have used it and can confirm it does work. I found out about it from an article in PBO many years ago, where a builder of a steel hulled boat used it to good effect.
It must be good, as it is used on the bridges over the Hudson River to Manhattan.
regards,
Philip
ccscott49
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Not sure about keels, but on the drilling rigs out here in the north sea, we use a product called ospho, I believe it is a phosphoric acid treatment and it stops rust dead! I used itr on some metal fittings that get a rtegular salt water spray from my stern glands, (I know they shouldnt!) and it has protected them, also there are many rust treatments that convert the rust to magnetite, which stops any furhter rusting, I believe nuetrarust is one of those, finnigans No:1 primer is also very very good stuff and kills the rust and coats in one go! There must be a multitude of rust killers preventers, try looking in old car mags!
Miker
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Thanks. Tried Neutrarust on the web but just got US sites. Could find nothing on Screwfix. More details or a telephone no would be helpful.
philip_stevens
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I'll sort out the info this evening. The US Neutrarust site is the one to look at. The UK is only a distributor.
Screwfix is www.screwfix.com
If you do a search of PBO R2R over the past ten months, you should find all the details of Neutrarust. That being, I will still send you details.
regards,
Philip
Screwfix is www.screwfix.com
If you do a search of PBO R2R over the past ten months, you should find all the details of Neutrarust. That being, I will still send you details.
regards,
Philip
philip_stevens
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This is the address I was thinking about, but there is an alternative.
This one is in Staines.
Unit 17 The Green Business Centre, The Causeway, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 3AL
Tel: 01784 455454 Fax: 01784 450752
This is an alternative.
Neutra Rust, Granville Oil & Chemicals, Unit 29 Goldthorpe industrial Estate, Goldthorpe, Rotherham. Tel 01709 890099.
regards,
Philip
This one is in Staines.
Unit 17 The Green Business Centre, The Causeway, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 3AL
Tel: 01784 455454 Fax: 01784 450752
This is an alternative.
Neutra Rust, Granville Oil & Chemicals, Unit 29 Goldthorpe industrial Estate, Goldthorpe, Rotherham. Tel 01709 890099.
regards,
Philip
Miker
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Thanks Philip
I rang Granville Oil. They no longer supply Neutra Rust but now do their own equivalent, called SRC, so I ordered some of that.
I'm assuming that it is as good.
I rang Granville Oil. They no longer supply Neutra Rust but now do their own equivalent, called SRC, so I ordered some of that.
I'm assuming that it is as good.
