Posted by Chriscase [75.36.42.200] on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 14:50:50 :
In Reply to: O.T. Painting Scuba Tanks posted by David [128.154.36.92] on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 13:46:37 :
It's tough to get paint to stick to aluminum without a special primer. That green stuff on airplane parts, umm, Chromate? Phosphate? It's an acid base, to eat the natural aluminum oxide layer that forms instantly and protects the aluminum from further corrosion.
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