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Repaint aluminum patio furniture

Q. My Tropitone aluminum patio furniture has corrosion under the factory paint. How can I prepare the aluminum for a successful repaint job?

Clyde Sanders
- Venice, Florida, USA
March 29, 2009

Hi, Clyde. You might want to consider taking it to a powder coating shop for stripping, pretreatment, and powder coating. The shop can do a chromate conversion coating as pretreatment, which you can't do because of its toxicity. If you want to repair it yourself, you need to wire brush all loose paint, apply a zinc phosphate primer ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] , and then finish coat with a paint of your choice (but not epoxy because it's not UV resistant). Good luck.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

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Q. We just purchased Tropitone table & 4 chairs Banchetto Slat Table, 2 Corisca sling chairs and 2 corisca sling rocker. Numbers on invoice are 11313a, 704095 & 704093 & 704094. Numbers on tags are 161170, CO7106R ABR 491865-6. We would like to order paint to use on old base. Please advise where we can order paint, price etc. Thank you.

William Christie
- Troy Ohio USA
July 11, 2012