Rust treatment

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One of the 'rainy day' tasks during Crystal's summer maintenance schedule is to clean up, rust-treat and repaint some of the bolts in the bilges etc. Can anyone recommend a rust-treatment, and give any advice about bilge-painting (I'm sure it can't be that hard, but one thing I've learned about old boats is there is always something you need to know BEFORE you do anything). As far as the treatment goes, I seem to have a ton of Jenolite left over from a five-year obsession with Triumphs, but of course I need to make sure there isn't going to be any chemical nastiness getting into the frames.

Advice gratefully received - am looking forward to a whole 10 days of maintenance and Woodbridge lazing at the end of this month!!

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If the parts can be immersed, then to remove rust dip them in a bath of a 10% solution of molasses, and leave them there for a week. Don't ask me how it works, I just know it does. If you are going to get the items galvanised the the galvanisers will dip them intp something ferocious.
Peter.
 
Sadly, they aren't removable - I'm specifically thinking of the big bolts in the frames, and I will just be dealing with their exposed ends. That is certainly a useful trick, though, and probably healthier than using Coca-Cola!
 
I have many galv bolts on the boat, most of the galv is long gone, I use a wire brush, clear up and then a paint called Galvafroid, its a zinc rich primer, you can tell there's lots of zinc in it as the tin is really heavy, its quite expensive, 15 quid a half litre, then I use red lead paint, then I use bilge paint.

Hope this helps.
 
The exposed ends are probably the good bits. It's where they go through the oak (probably) frames that "life gets interesting".

Don't ask me how I know that - but suffice it to say that all Mirelle's floor bolts were renewed a few years ago...
 
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