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Suggestions on how to finish an eternal non-treated or primed mild steel to give a rust proofing hardwareing finish similar to galvanizing.

Philip O Neill
NBK Designs Ltd - Dublin, Ireland

The best way to achieve a finish similar to galvanizing is, of course, galvanizing. So I guess your question isn't clear enough for me.
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Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
finishing.com
Brick, New Jersey

Hi..

Other then painting the surface with a good quality paint with a self etching primmer there are great epoxy paints, other then galvanizing I suppose I would need to know what your going to expose the metal to. There's always chroming..

Frank Thomas
- Modesto, California

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