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Kitchenguy,

If you get your car blasted you need to pick a nice dry day and get the car home as soon as possible. Make sure your airline is producing totally dry air before you start blowing out the sand/soda or whatever, because this will cause it to flash rust before your very eyes. Paint the car the same day.

Dont worry about the surface rust in the seams there is nothing you can do about that. If the seams are buldging with rust you need to completely cut them out and make new. Do this before blasting. Seal seams with overcoatable seam sealer. This is the best way to keep the moister out.

I no longer use rust converters. I am not saying they dont work I just dont like them.

when I say two pack I am referring to any paint that is mixed with a catalyst. In the USA it would generally be referred to as urethane. I am not even sure if you can buy it any more now it's all gone water based.

Paint talk has always been confusing between the British and Americans.
What you call lacquer we call cellulose (full name nitro cellulose lacquer)
What you call enamel we call synthetic (full name synthetic enamel)
What you call urethane we call two pack (full name polyurethane)
What you call clear coat we have always called lacquer, although the term clear coat is now more popular.

Gary, is it your experience that epoxy primer adheres better than self etching (acid etch) primer?

Johnny