this is what it looks like after sitting outside for...7 years-2 months-11 days ... you can see by the rest of the metal as to what the surface looked like to start with... no prep...I was just wiping off the brush I was using... www.rustbullet.com
I'd be interested in knowing what it looked like if you lifted up some of the rust bullet. If it was rusty under it.
being I painted over the rusty scales...I would say...rusty scales... what impresses me is for a surface that wasn't even cleaned...no flaking...
Yea I hear ya, I was just curious since Rust Bullet claims to be a rust converter what effect it had on untreated materials. 7 years should be long enough for the chemicals to convert the rust. And little light zat with a wire brush would give an interesting result to me. But its your time I'm asking to waste so by all means do as you please. I'd take your results as shown as enough reason to confirm the fact I want to base my entire car in rust bullet some day.
Frank, I hope you don't mind me piggy-backing this on to your thread, but I figured this would be a GREAT place to post this. My 2004 Ram 1500 started rusting at the front edge of the bed/body about a year after I bought it new. I was just starting to use POR-15, so I figured "what the heck! Experiment!" POR-15 instructions are to knock off the loose rust, and apply right on the rusty surface. I did not do that. I sanded down to bare metal, then applied the POR-15 to it. I was informed that POR-15 will fade to a gray and turn powdery over time exposed to the sun. Here is what it looks like 6 or 7 years later. Just to compare to your Rust Bullet. Based on these results, I will be buying the Rust Bullet from now on. My POR-15 started to turn gray within a year or two, and held back the rust pretty good for 7 years, but it looks like crap. Bad picture, cell phone, but you CAN see rusty colors in and around the POR-15 paint.
I used POR-15 on my suspension parts when I rebuilt the front end about 9 or 10 years ago. Of course those parts don't get much sunlight and still look great today. When I read the warning about not exposing to sunlight I wondered how that would affect it. Now I know.
According to the link above, Rust Bullet doesn't clam to be a converter...it clams to be a inhibitor. It even goes on to say that Rust Bullet should not be confused as a converter.
I can't think of any parts, that you would paint with either product, that would see much, if any, direct sunlight at all
this is it in my...cowl vent delete...I put the first coat on and before it dried I laid in a layer of ...fiberglass matt... then another coat of... www.rustbullet.com
I have used POR-15 on the battery tray in my car and on the floorboards (no sun) in 1998 and they still look like it was just done. I applied it to the letter of the instructions using their marine clean and prep and haven't had an issue but I have wanted to try the rustbullet stuff on something... I did not clean the rust other than hitting the scale with a wire brush. POR15 instructions say specifically that it needs the rust to bite into and it is sensitive to UV light but I thought that it was just an appearance thing, not rusting again
I have used a lot of POR-15, and I like it alot. It looks like powdercoat, and stays looking like that for a very long time. The parts I have painted with it that DO NOT GET DIRECT SUNLIGHT...I have never seen any discoloration or fading. But this one spot on my truck faded pretty quickly in direct sunlight. I threw that picture up to compare to Frank's Rustbullet experiment that has been in direct sunlight.
