Anyone ever repaint the seat springs?

[Spartan]

Since my car sat for some time and the seats were shot when I bought her in 84 I have been spending my non-working time removing all the old canvas and cleaning up the springs.  Once I pulled off the coverings I found my springs had a good bit of surface rust on the exposed metal.  Basically it has been a wire brush, sand paper, and some rattle cans of rust stopping spray.  The rust is a little too deep for me to get it off so I have used the the rust stopping spray hoping it does what it says.  Is there an easier way to clean these springs up or am I wasting allot of energy on something no one will ever see anyway?  Being in Michigan, I worry, and try to eliminate every spot of rust before it takes a foot hold on my baby and I just want to try to get it back as close to factory as I can and still enjoy driving her on a nice day.

Thanks.

[Drop Top]

POR-15

[Mfr426]

I sand blasted mine and then POR15'd them.

Mike R
MFR426

[phat69charger]

My friend that done my seats painted the springs but they were not that bad, he told me buy sport seats that recline, I didn't think that would look right in my car but I do see alot of mopars in magazines with sport seats, now I'm considering buying sport seats and have them done to match the rest of the interior, most pepboys have seats that you can checkout in the store they start at $149 - $199 each for reclining seats and the ones that don't recline are $89.00 each, you can find the same seats on ebay but you can't sit in the ones on ebay before you buy them.

[Spartan]

Is it a problem if I paint POR15 over the spings without stripping off the old paint?  Again, most is rust and I have taken a wire brush or steel wooled the whole thing.  I can't get all the paint off.  I didn't see anything about putting it over old paint.  The blast cabinet I have access to can't blast parts that big.

[bull]

The guy who's gong to restore my seats tears them completely down and sand blasts them and primes them before building them back up. He's had very good results. In this case you should use SAND rather than some other media to blast them with as it will do the best job of removing any rust.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

POR-15 stands for "Paint Over Rust"

It uses rust to bond to the metal......paint away!

www.por15.com

[runningman]

You can have them dipped and e-coated.  That is what I am planning to do on mine, I think it was $100 for both buckets

[bakerhillpins]

One of my money pit hobbies is Coin Op Pinball games. In the restro process for those games we use a product called Lightning Rust remover to clean up the metal legs and various other difficult metal parts.

Product webpage:
http://www.lightningstrip.com/rust.htm

Here is a small writeup from on of the pinball repair sites:
http://marvin3m.com/restore/index1.htm#legs

And a little longer write up here.
http://www.txpinball.com/metal_rust_removal.html

Have fun
Bryan

[phat69charger]

One of my money pit hobbies is Coin Op Pinball games. In the restro process for those games we use a product called Lightning Rust remover to clean up the metal legs and various other difficult metal parts.

Product webpage:
http://www.lightningstrip.com/rust.htm

Here is a small writeup from on of the pinball repair sites:
http://marvin3m.com/restore/index1.htm#legs

And a little longer write up here.
http://www.txpinball.com/metal_rust_removal.html

Have fun
Bryan

That's some good stuff from the information I see and it's a good price for the amount of product you get, I have few more small parts that I can use some of it on, I'll try it out and let everyone know what I think!