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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1399301" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>Try a section before you spend a lot of money and see how it works. Tubing that has been exposed to H2S or CO2 will never hold paint. It seeps from the inside out. The paint will look like its cracking then start coming off it chunks a lot of times with metal attached to it.</p><p></p><p>New pipe comes with oils on it... the black stuff that gets all over your hands. You have to wipe it down with a degreaser or gas, diesel, some thing of that nature and paint it asap. If you wait until the next day it will start rusting. The best thing to do with square tubing or some thing of that nature when you get it new is wipe it all down and rattle a cheap primer on it. Then it can sit for a good while and it will be ready to go. My dad would do that to all his pipe in stock at his shop so he didn't have to mess with the black stuff while he was working and it would not rust. </p><p></p><p>The best time to paint your pipe is right after taking the oils off. It last for ever like that... even cheap rattle on paint. I don't like buying used sq tubing, angle, flat bar, etc after it has started rusting. If its going to be some thing nice you never get that rust truly gone. Catch it right when you take the black stuff off and it will be good to go for a long time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1399301, member: 6291"] Try a section before you spend a lot of money and see how it works. Tubing that has been exposed to H2S or CO2 will never hold paint. It seeps from the inside out. The paint will look like its cracking then start coming off it chunks a lot of times with metal attached to it. New pipe comes with oils on it... the black stuff that gets all over your hands. You have to wipe it down with a degreaser or gas, diesel, some thing of that nature and paint it asap. If you wait until the next day it will start rusting. The best thing to do with square tubing or some thing of that nature when you get it new is wipe it all down and rattle a cheap primer on it. Then it can sit for a good while and it will be ready to go. My dad would do that to all his pipe in stock at his shop so he didn't have to mess with the black stuff while he was working and it would not rust. The best time to paint your pipe is right after taking the oils off. It last for ever like that... even cheap rattle on paint. I don't like buying used sq tubing, angle, flat bar, etc after it has started rusting. If its going to be some thing nice you never get that rust truly gone. Catch it right when you take the black stuff off and it will be good to go for a long time. [/QUOTE]
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