I was thinking about water from the road getting sloshed onto all the bare steel I created in the floor and frame rails. Before I weld everything up I ordered some weld through primer, some zinc primer, and some seam sealer from Eastwood. Those are due in Wednesday which is annoying because I could have just driven over to Eastwood and picked them up.
I did some reading about whether I should remove the mill scale before priming. I have been repeatedly amazed how tenacious mill scale is. I have always painted over it in the past, and the internet seems to agree that you are better off leaving it on there if you don't care about the appearance of the end product.
Since welding is the next step, I am doing a little cleaning, and also fixing the busted carriage drive on the lathe. I got to use my new boring bars to make the coupler. Of course the coupler would have turned out better if I had a functioning carriage drive.
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