Farboil Offers Free Four-Color Folder On Wetsall® Coatings

The Farboil Company of Baltimore, Md., is offering a free fourcolor folder on Wetsall®, the primer specially designed by Farboil, after years of extensive laboratory and field research, to penetrate damp, rusty surfaces.

Under the heading "Life Insurance for Metal Surfaces," the text of the brochure mentions that if you have painted over damp, rusty surfaces with conventional paint primers, you know what happens—the first coat of primer doesn't adhere properly and, since the entire paint system depends on that bond, the whole system fails. However, time and cost constraints often require that you paint under such conditions.

Farboil's solution to the problem is Wetsall, which penetrates rust and moisture and chemically bonds tight rust and firmly adhering paint to steel surfaces. It forces moisture out through the paint and forms a tough coating that stops further further rusting. Wetsall's penetration is said to be so effective that existing rust becomes an integral part of the coating.

Advantages pointed out in the publications are: Wetsall requires less preparation in that it eliminates the need for dry surfaces and the need for costly sand or shot blasting to remove rust; Wetsall is a fast drying coating that also performs well as a finish for up to 30 months, resisting exposure to salt spray, ultraviolet rays, chemical and oil fumes and spillage, humidity and moisture; and Wetsall has excellent coverage—one gallon will cover up to 400 square feet.

The back page of the folder contains results from extensive 30 and 54-month exposure tests conducted on Farboil's Wetsall coatings by the Steel Structures Painting Council.

Wetsall scored an average rating of 8.2 and 8.9 out of a perfect 10 points, respectively. According to the manufacturer, Wetsall proved, at 1.4 mils thickness, to be among the highest performing, commercially obtainable and economically priced products in the test.

Wetsall is available in red, grey, white and black to cover all anticorrosive priming needs.

For additional information on Wetsall and other Farboil marine paints and protective coatings, Circle 3 6 on Reader Service Card

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 91, Jun 1985

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