PST tank Painted?

[warscout2]

I have a PST HP120 made in 95 that is painted white. All of my other pst tanks are the raw dip galv finish. Was this tank just painted or is it also hot dipped and then they painted it. I'm not the original owner but the paint job does not look like it was done with a rattle can.

 

[Scared Silly]

Probably painted afterwards. I would recommend checking the paint job carefully to figure out what was done. Any chance of baked enamel paint job? Which would be a no-no.

 

[warscout2]

I think it was factory painted. The stickers on it seem like they where from the factory

 

[Scared Silly]

I can not remember the history but Dolphin was a cylinder distributor BITD:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ta...ne-know-anything-about-dolphin-cylinders.html

IMHO it does look like a factory job.

 

[spectrum]

Very common when they rebranded them as Genesis or Sherwood too. I have a few 100's and they seem to have the hot dipped galvanize under the paint. I know scuffs do not result in rust.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

My experience was the opposite: underneath a heavy duty marine expoxy paint and primer, I found bare steel on a Genesis HP 100 I bought to double up with a hotdipped one I had. It took days to get the whole thing totally stripped of that crap, but it started rusting all over just as soon as it was stripped and exposed to the moist, salty Hawaiian air. The zinc-rich cold galv I sprayed on is not the most scratch resistant coating I've ever seen...though the galv is doing what it's supposed to, because despite seawater and suboptimal rinsing, several scratches down to the steel aren't rusting.

Still, if I had it to do over again, I'd sell the painted tank and wait for a galved one to show up.