Re: POR 15 horror

["John Hammond" <426_maxwedge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been paying $42. to $47 a quart from various distributors for POR-15 
for years and years. How much had you previously spent on that quantity?  If 
a PPG product is that inexpensive I'd have to question if it is indeed on a 
level with POR-15.  Normally if you are buying PPG you are buying the best 
and paying a premium for the product at the same time. I guess you could do 
a A to B real world test to know for sure....Paint the back of one hand with 
POR and the back of the other with the PPG and see which you wear longer. I 
know from personal experience that a light coat of POR will go a good three 
weeks of hand washing with pumice infused pro-level hand cleaners. Get it on 
your head and you will probably resort to a mechanical removal proceedure 
via butter knife or 220 grit wet-or-dry.  There are two aspects about POR-15 
I find especially appealing, (and I am not at all familiar with the PPG 
product, but these would weigh heavilly in my decision to use it or not), 
1st, POR's attribute of cure in moisture....if you a killing rust that 
started due to a wet location; using an encapsulater that hardens in 
dampness is genius.  2nd, the sound deadning qualities it emparts, I can 
attest to a very noticeable drop in sheetmetal  resonance and resultant 
interior noise levels with the use of the product. Driving my 65 Belvedere, 
sans carpet, prior to, and then after the coating top side, (interior), 
only....purely for the sake of compairison...the noise level drop was 
dramatic.  Based on those findings, in my '64 330 wagon got both sides of 
the floorpan area doused in the nasty black goo, prior to some serious 
floorboard insulation escapades.....can we say Mercedes?   Maybe not...but 
normal conversations are easy as cake in there. I'm a believer in the evil 
ebony ooze from Hell and would be reluctant to even give anything else a day 
in court considering the outstanding performance it's provided for me over 
the years. Yes it's pricey, but to me it's been proven to work and that 
peace of mind makes sporting splotches on you your person in public for a 
month a bit easier to deal with......John Hammond
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "neal zimmerman" <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:11 PM
Subject: POR 15 horror


> Imagine my horror today when I went to my auto body and paint supply
> shop to find that POR 15 is now 45 a quart!!! Or 155 a gallon!! I have
> the floors all done in the 62 Dart and want to embalm them above and
> below, but not for that much. I wondered what the local Miller paints
> store had , so I went there and I got a PPG 2-part direct to   metal
> epoxy for 89 dollars for a one gallon kit, which makes 2 gallons of
> finished product. Its a 1 to 1 ratio so I can make up a quart at a
> time.They showed me a beam with it on and its hard as a rock. Wanna
> bet its every bit as good as POR at 1/4 the cost.  ??
>   Neal zimmerman, Eugene oregon
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