Rust Inhibitors Options

[Zeke]

You guys are pretty tough, especially when I come up with an idea. But I have been pursuing information on a process of rust protection and arrest for inaccessable areas like the rockers, doors, lower rear portions of the front fenders and rear edge of rear deck lid. Things like that. Not to mention the whole 914!

I know there are fleet applications for the military and the likes of UPS. I have found a few candidates for the job. One is sold under the name Carwell Rust Cop.

Another is a cosmoline based product that hardens and seals. Has a fantastic life span as opposed to the Rust Cop which must be renewed periodically. (And that makes marketing sense beacuse Carwell is really in the application business so why would they feature a one time process when they can come back time and again?)

A third is a lanolin base that can be used safely around the interior and taillight housings where it might get on the paint. The cosmoline formula is tough to remove once on.

There is even another 'Vaseline,' or petolatum, based one for a lighter more temporary use in the shop.

Comments? Anyone have any additional info for this type of thing? Seems like with our older cars, we would need as much rust protection as we can get.


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[Zeke]

Most of the body shops shoot wax into the frame rails after a repair. I'll try to find out what the name of the product is that they use.


B

Brad, is this it? Waxoyl seems to be popular with the British rustbucket crowd.

That's interesting. I went to the Waxoyl home page yesterday and found that they would not sell to individuals. No link to the Proper MG site.

BUT, what I did find was a home brew recipe for Waxoyl: turpentine, beeswax and light machine oil; heated and combined.

COME ON!! I don't know wbout you, but I don't want to heat flammable ingredients just to make some furnature polish. If that is good enough for you, get it. It's not cheap, though at $12 for spray can plus shipping. I would reccommed the Carwell before that.

I'll get some more info as I can on the more serious stuff that comes in an areosol can with no CFC's powering it.

One last thing, if you can paint it with POR-15, that's the hot ticket. Somehow, I had a problem painting the inside of my rear suspension console and inside my rockers. So, to this day, they have been rinsed with phospho, but not sealed. I did squirt some POR-15 in there, but I know I didn't get complete coverage. I need something easy and inexpensive. And not furnature wax.