vactan, can you put it on the chassis?

[lloydy]

I've got about a litre and half of vactan that's gettin close to 12 months old, so want to use it before shelf life runs out.
Was thinking of wire brushing chassis, applying vactan to everything i can get to. Then maybe covering with dinitrol.
Is this flawed in some way, or a good idea?
Cheers, Lloyd

[Nicola&Tony]

iirc, Vactan should only be applied to areas that are rusty, not sure it can be used as a general purpose primer or undercoat, but I could be wrong.

Tony

[lloydy]

Cheers, i've got a decent amount of surface rust on the chassis, particulary the front end. Was thinking wire brush the flaky stuff off then vactan, then dinitrol. Or just dinitrol

[CovKid]

I've used vactan to good effect on the chassis, followed by hammerite - about the only place on a t25 I'd use hammerite.

[lloydy]

just bought a dinitrol kit. rust converter, cavity wax, and underbody wax. Just waiting for my christmas prezzie of a compressor

[ninja.turtle007]

I have some Vatcan and some stone chip lying around that needs using. Is this ok or should I really be painting before stone chip? Or should I throw the stone chip away and use Dinitrol?

[lloydy]

i've just bought a load of dinatrol black wax and the thinner brown cavity wax, started putting the black stuff on today, ruins cheap brushes

[ninja.turtle007]

I've got a Shutz gun if you want to borrow it, could probably borrow a small compressor if you need one.

[lloydy]

I've got the gun, a compressor would be great! Let us know if you can
Cheers

[lhd]

I used Vactan on my 2wd Westy and in less than a year the rust was back. I redone it with krust and its still as black as coal (two years on).
Ask anyone who knows my old van and they will say it wasn't rust patches, but black patches.
Sorry but I don't accept this praising of Vactan. If it was that good you would have heard of it before you ever joined club 80-90.
Sorry to p**s on every Vactan preachers fire, but it didn't work for me.
It was ok for about 6 months but sadly, after that the brown stuff started raising it's ugly head.
Add to that I had opened the Krust bottle about four years previous, and only switched to Vactan after all the 80-90 praising.
Within a year the vactan had seperated and half had turned solid in the bottle.
I still have the bottle of Krust now, and it's still a liquid.
Rob.

[CovKid]

Well.....this time last year I painted the rusty bolt on my back gate with vactan and nothing else. I took a picture after I did it and it looks exactly the same - rust free and its been exposed to driving rain and a layer of snow. It depends what you're treating and how I think. Will post the before/after pic for reference but as it was exposed I thought it would make a good test case.