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Primer doesn't stick to Galvanized Steel

Duplex Systems: Painting Over Hot-Dip Galvanized Steel
by American Galvanizers Association

(free download from AGA)

Self-Etching Primer
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I have an old galvanized steel barn on which I cannot get a primer to adhere to, any suggestions?

Bob Bernard
- Corbyville, Ontario, Canada
2001

2001

Hi, Bob. See Duplex Systems: Painting over Galvanized Steel at "www.galvanizeit.org/publications/pdf_files/duplex.pdf" if a self-etching primer will not give you adhesion. But make sure your primer is a self-etching primer made for galvanized surfaces. Good luck.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

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