When to paint?

[Talonmotorsport]

The sooner you put some work in to cleaning and covering the bare steel the less of a mission you will have later when it comes to painting it, once the light surface rust patches start to show it's time to get started before it gets any worse. Clean the tubing with some thing like acetone and scotch bright to degrease and key the surface,then give the whole thing a light dusting/covering of single pack etch primer. Remember to wear a good mask while painting espesh if spraying and that it does travel! Once the surface has started to rust it will be a mission to remove it so even if the first layer of primer gets grubby it will be a lot easier to just touch up that area rather than clean the whole chassis. When you come to weld more parts to it you'll only need to remove the primer around that area then touch up after welding. If you use a light colour primer to do the first coat then the second coat use a darker colour then you can see the parts you have missed.