STAFF CAR SAGAS
Spring has sprung, but there's never a bad time for wax
Done!
Matt admits to previous procrastination over the messy job of wax injection, to his classics' detriment. Job now well done.
The emergence of buds on the trees might signal the end of winter, and the worst of the salt on the roads, but it doesn’t mean that rust prevention should be any further down the to-do list. Before I put my Land Rover on the road, back in December, I spent a good couple of hours in the PC workshop fighting to keep rustproofing wax from freezing in the gun, feeding as much as I could into the freshly painted chassis and up inside the newly solid bulkhead. But with temperatures of minus four in the workshop, I was fighting a losing battle. Having completed so much heavy lifting on the Ninety over the past year, particularly in terms of welding and the massive amounts of strip down required to do that welding properly, I really needed to do the job properly, so I bit the bullet and took a trip to see friend of PC, Chris Allen, at Rustbuster Ltd this month.
Rustbuster's impressive range of products are designed with the home user in mind, however they also offer a well-regarded in-house rustproofing service (full service from £395+VAT) and Chris had a new toy to show me. All of Rustbuster's in-house rustproofing now exclusively uses their clear range of Lanolin-based Corrolan waxes, which are derived from sheep's wool, and Chris's new toy, a heated hose to his spray gun, ensures the warm wax from the heated drum is atomised perfectly both within the box sections we were tackling on my Land Rover, and across the whole underside of both classic and modern vehicles, which the team rust-proof on a daily basis. A significant improvement over my attempts in the freezing PC workshop!
Inside and out
I'd already cleaned and painted the outside of the chassis in Rustbuster's EM121 chassis paint, however while I filled the chassis and bulkhead box sections using a combination of a long 360-degree probe and 90-degree angled nozzle, slowly and methodically, from front to back, Chris broke out a bottle of his Safer degreaser and Purple-X to rem
