When heavy construction equipment is used in a corrosive environment containing salt, fertilizer-potash, lime, and other corrosive chemicals, trying to prevent rust from destroying your equipment is a difficult task. Rust forms on engine parts, interior components, and outside panels. Steps, hand rails, decking, cab, doors, tanks, mirror and light brackets are also a few things that quickly rust.
Although, no product completely stops rust or corrosion, EquipCoat™ clear protective coating is the most cost effective product available today. EquipCoat™ seals and encapsulates nearly everything (except glass) and is proven to greatly reduce damaging effects that chemicals have on heavy equipment and their components. Once applied, your equipment’s paint color will look showroom new and have a clear coat barrier of protection that will last for years.
When construction equipment is stored outside, paint often fades. Simply touching-up faded parts, or completely repainting before selling is expensive, time-consuming, and the end result is less than ideal.
EquipCoat provides the following benefits with every application:
- Specially formulated for use on Heavy Construction Equipment
- Long-term protection helps prevent corrosion, oxidation, rust, and fading of paint
- Polymer resin encapsulates metal surfaces to provide a sealed barrier from the elements
- Crystal Clear Coating will restore faded paint surfaces, paint gloss, and enhances color
- Highly Corrosion Resistant protecting equipment from UV, salt, calcium chloride, fly-ash, fertilizer and urea damage
- Safe to use on new and used equipment
- Helps restore clarity to red and amber light lenses
- Indefinite shelf-life in closed container
- Will not chip, crack, peel or yellow when applied as directed
- Will bond to itself, so no sanding or priming needed to apply, making it easy to re-apply anytime.
- Once cured coating can be painted over
- Heat-resistant, allowing the coating of radiators, engines, and their related components
- Reduces maintenance by helping repel dirt, making coated surfaces easier to clean
- Economical as it will refinish and protect approximately 1,000 sq. ft. per gallon on most metal substrates.
Heavy Equipment Related Questions
A. Yes, by coating the engine and interior parts, as well as the radiator, you can help prevent corrosion. The protective coating will also reduce corrosion on all nuts-and-bolts.
A. No, it is a polymer resin very different in chemical structure from automotive clear coats. Automotive clears are normally catalyzed coatings. Equipcoat will blend itself and remains flexible throughout its life and which will never peel or flake, as long as it is applied properly.
Specific Applications
Poultice corrosion is rust which occurs when deposits of mud or other debris hold stagnant moisture in contact with a metal surface. Because the mud or debris is moisture-laden, this condition accelerates the rusting process.
Crevice corrosion is intense accelerated rusting in joints and recesses. The solution for crevice corrosion is injecting EquipCoat into the crevice or where two metals meet at the joint or recess.
Heavy equipment owners are looking for a cost effective way to stop the damage rust has on the outside body and inside components of their equipment. Commonly affected areas include; engine, radiator, electronic control panels, and brake lines.
Whenever two different metals come in contact with each other, a potential exists for the corrosive destruction of the atomically weaker of the two metals. The further away these two metals are in terms of the atomic structure, the greater their potential for galvanic corrosion. The closer the different metals are to one another, the less potentialfor galvanic corrosion. The actual galvanic corrosive process is similar to rusting to the degree that weaker metals become negative areas and lose electrons to the stronger positive atoms of the other metal.
Chemically speaking, Cosmoline is a homogeneous mixture of oily and waxy hydrocarbons that over time turn hard and gummy allowing contaminants to stick to it. Cosmoline is often used for corrosion protection, but because contaminants can stick to it, washing the equipment can be difficult. Waxes and polish can help but are short lived and are not designed for internal parts.