My boat trailer is galvanized steel. It's not rusted but looks patchy. Is it worth painting? I think it will look nice painted but I don't know if there's durable paint for this sort of application. I wouldn't want the paint to start flaking or something and then the trailer will look worse than it does now. Or worse for the paint to trap water in places where it comes loose, and make the trailer rust faster if such a thing is possible. If there's good paint for this I'd want it to be grey to match more or less the galvanized steel color, so I don't have to paint the whole thing, only the most visible parts.
Painting boat trailer
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I once saw somebody who painted most of their trailer with rhino liner. He said it held well.
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It's all in the prep, in your case best bet would be to Sand blast it then paint it with galvanized paint, POR 15 is the best but $$$$
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DANpara pintar e acero galvinazado es necesaria un imprimacion base este producto es ideal
despues de tratado hay que pintar encima con pintura buena claro, apropiada para ambientes marinos
si puedes alargar la vida del remolque mejor que mejorhttp://www.hammerite.es/produc…imacion-para-Galvanizado/
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DAN galvinazed steel paint and a primer is needed this product is ideal
after trying to be painted over with good clear picture, suitable for marine environments
if you can extend the life of the trailer the better -
Thanks guys.
This is the procedure I used to paint the trailer. First cleaned the rusty patches with a wire wheel and drill, and wire brush where that wouldn't reach. Then on the flat rust that wouldn't come off I brushed on Ospho. This stuff appears to work well to condition the rusty area for paint, the rust becomes black in color. I gave the Ospho a day to dry and then painted with Rustoleum cold galvanizing paint. Looks good, and I didn't paint the whole trailer, the painted patches don't stand out too bad as the color is pretty close to galvanized steel. Lets see how it holds up.
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Thanks Don.
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I think that there is no paint that will be better than hot galvanizing. If I were in your pants, I would just paint the rusted areas with the "galvanized" paint you have.
Sand blasting or sanding/cleaning just will take the anticorrosive layer away from the trailer and you don't want that.
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You guys are over thinking this trailer thing.....
In 5 years the little RIB will be the chase boat/shore boat for Dan's yacht.
We don't need no stinkin trailer.
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At this point I'm not impressed with this cold galvanizing paint. I had to grease something on the trailer and some grease came in contact with the painted area, took the paint right off.
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sorry to hear that Dan, sounds like all the more reason to follow Don's model of your five year plan
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