Any of you guys ever heard of this Steel It paint?

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Maybe Barry will weigh in on it as well (I hope)
 
They lost me with the spray bomb. Looks like they've found a use for stainless steel floor sweepings, or at least a way to sell them. Why would you want stainless steel powder in your paint? Can't be corrosion resistance because plastic (urethane) is completely corrosion resistant unlike stainless steel. Just put a can of ss powder in the weather for a few weeks... But I'll listen to more educated views.
Ahh wait, single component polyurethane topcoat? Sound familiar?
 
just ss powder in the weather will be fine. The problem is the bits of carbide and whatever else is mixed in with them that caused oxidation. That is why we passivate stainless steel to remove the foreign materials.

Nothing more than any other metal flake in an intercoat, flakes interlock and arrange themselves in the final finish.
 
Makes no sense to me at all and I don't have a clue but industrial stuff is different.
If quality was a concern they would be buying microsphere's but wait, I just got a pallet this week and not cheap.
 
Appreciate all the replies. That's what I thought - saw it over on the Bronco site. I need to stick to the paint site for paint.
 
I'd say we don't really know if it's good or not, but as far as I know, there's no such thing as a magical product. For adhering and protecting metal, epoxy is the best, period. Now, if a person liked the appearance of this stainless steel particle paint, I'm pretty sure it would be fine to put over epoxy, though it might take some testing to figure out how to make the two get along.
 
It's used on a lot of race trucks. Ultra4 and SNORE guys. You're supposed to be able to weld over it without grinding down to bare metal. I've never tried welding over it, so I don't know how contaminate free it really is, but that's what they say. My cousin just did his race trucks frame and suspension and drive parts in it. Stuff is expensive.
 
It's used on a lot of race trucks. Ultra4 and SNORE guys. You're supposed to be able to weld over it without grinding down to bare metal. I've never tried welding over it, so I don't know how contaminate free it really is, but that's what they say. My cousin just did his race trucks frame and suspension and drive parts in it. Stuff is expensive.

They use cause they get paid too most likely. As for welding over it.........Seriously?:D I'd like to know how a little bit of ground stainless in a urethane or expoxy coating is going to be weldable. It's a gimmick product IMO along the lines of POR-15.

These products feed into peoples ignorance. Years ago paint systems were not durable enough to protect metal from rust for any extended period of time so supplemental type products were developed like zinc coatings as a "crutch". These supplemental type products were only used bevause the coatings of that time were not capable of protecting metal from the elements for any extended length of time.
With the advent of refinish epoxy these crutches are no longer necessary. Simple as that.
 
for any of you who saw my earlier post on mastercoat . it is an industrial coating thats been in the northeast forever . great for bridges and pipe corals .
BUT none of these things belong on a car . period . epoxy/polyester/urethane are the only acceptable coatings .
crap like por15 and this steel paint are snake oils in disguise . ok for a farm implements or pipe railings but nothing more .
folks need to realize summit and eastwood do not make paint . i'll never understand why people read some stupid shit on autobody then come here talking about it . read the website header . it doesn't say spi and other shit .
 
Super late to this party but my company uses steel-it paint all the time. We manufacture machinery for the food and beverage industry so wash-down and sanitation is important. Our machine frames are painted with this product in applications where stainless steel is cost prohibitive. Our customers pressure wash our equipment with caustic chemicals and this paint holds up really well. It's also easy to repair in the event it's damaged. We don't paint sheetmetal with it so I can't vouch for whether or not it is flexible enough for that. It's actually a very good product fwiw.
 
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