[TowerTalk] Rohn 25 Rusting

[Pete Smith]

I had quite satisfactory results on my used Rohn 25 tower by 
scraping, painting with galvanized primer and then following with a 
coat of ordinary latex house paint.  It's been up since 1995 and very 
little rust showing.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 01:31 PM 4/23/2009, Bruce Alexander wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Forgot to mention that you must use a primer paint
>designed to be use over a galvanized surface.
>The galvanized coating naturally sets up an
>reaction to most oil based paints called saponification.
>The primer you choose must be designed to
>be used over galvanized or your new paint job
>may peel off in a short period of time.
>
>Bruce W3ALX
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