beginner painting

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Originally Posted by FAKKY

"permanent rust sealer aluminum pigmented non-leafing primer" - what is this

I think the plan is to cut it all back and see if clean underneath ...... meaning I hit either metal and no rust ...... or skim body work and clean. Anywhere there is evidence of pinholes or "suspect" I will take back to metal and remove rust and reskim if need.

Then epoxy prime it and block it out as best as I can ...
then go from there ....

lmk --- will be my first one.

Permanent rust sealer is the most anticorrosive primer there is it's not usually a body shop item. When you're going over the surface as body filler paint and bare-metal I use this as my base primer. Then I put the epoxy surfacer over it and then the paint. A body shop uses primers that are not airtight that's why body shop rust work generally sucks. You can go to the rust bullet or master coat websites and see how cars that are being done with these primers to minimize comebacks. I've been doing this for 40 years I have paint jobs out there one is 40 years old the other one is 16 and both cars are show. The 55 I did in 2006 were similar to the situation you have now.Good luck with your project I hope you don't become too confused