Black rail – Metal Painting – maintenance job.

[Jeremy2014]

Hi All,

This was taking care 2 years ago and still looking very good.

But couple of areas need bit of maintenance where paint have peel it / burst as per picture if clear enough - (a bit surprise as I thought that this would not have to be taken care as quickly - but what can i do?)


What we were thinking is to touch paint any areas that look at risk so to avoid a bigger job later?
1 - brush up with wire brush to remove any loose paint
2 - Sanding surface so smooth before painting?
2 - and then applied something like Hammerite metal paint

Is that all right to do that?

1/ can I just touch paint the area that need touch up?
2/ or do the full rail need to be painted so that it look as smooth as possible?
do I need primer or can I just apply the metal paint?

Thanks

 

[Tigercubrider]

Touching up always looks obvious.

There is a smooth and original hamerite. It's not as good as it was.
Personally I would do the whole thing and you may have a lot of time on your hands at the moment.
A flappy wheel on a drill or a paint stripping disc on an angle grinder will work.

Hamerite can be brushed on with no basecoat but consider an old fashioned oxide primer

 

[Jeremy2014]

oh, good call - did not realised that there were two sort of these - Smooth and Hammered by original you mean?
try to look to understand the difference but no luck -I would say that our finish is pretty smooth so will get the smooth.
sadly no drill nor grinder, can we do by hand?

Ok will keep that in mind about the touching versus touch paint too as time will be available!

 

[Tigercubrider]

A hand wire brush will be good exercise. If the hire places stay open then consider an angle grinder or but a cheap one

 

[Jeremy2014]

Cheers thanks so much