Paint for post bases

[markharro]

I wonder if someone could help me with my issue - I need to finish these posts. As you can see plain steel ie non galvanised. I want to protect the steel but also produce a visual effect to mirror galvanising as we will have some other galvanised metal parts nearby. I had planned to use this Zinga product - https://www.promain.co.uk/zinga-96-zinc-cathodic-protection.html but spoke to their tech support and it is meant to go on bare steel so that would mean sand blasting the posts and thats not really an option. They suggested maybe using this spray to produce as an alternative sprayed on after I sandpaper the posts first of all - https://www.promain.co.uk/zinga-zingaspray.html 

 

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks 

[Roger440]

3 hours ago, markharro said:

I wonder if someone could help me with my issue - I need to finish these posts. As you can see plain steel ie non galvanised. I want to protect the steel but also produce a visual effect to mirror galvanising as we will have some other galvanised metal parts nearby. I had planned to use this Zinga product - https://www.promain.co.uk/zinga-96-zinc-cathodic-protection.html but spoke to their tech support and it is meant to go on bare steel so that would mean sand blasting the posts and thats not really an option. They suggested maybe using this spray to produce as an alternative sprayed on after I sandpaper the posts first of all - https://www.promain.co.uk/zinga-zingaspray.html 

 

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks 

Jotun do an epoxy which i think is suffixed AL. It has aluminium flakes in ut, is super drable and greyish silver in colour.

 

Check which version though, you need the one that is a topcoat is is UV stable.

 

I get mine from here: https://www.smlmarinepaints.co.uk/

 

Very helpful as are promain. You actually get to speak to a real person who has knowledge. Crazy, it will never catch on!