Flash rusting is a significant problem for all water borne paint, especially over steel.
So What Exactly Is Flash Rusting?
Basically it is corrosion from steel bleeding through a coating. This creates a stain within hours of the coating application. Long term corrosion is not flash rusting. This occurs when a thin film of water resides on the surface of steel for a brief period of time causing corrosion to take place. The corrosion products are often soluble and can migrate within a coating to produce a stain.
Flash rust is very common in water borne coatings since they have the two primary requirements to allow corrosion; oxygen and water. If either water or oxygen is not available, the metal corrosion rate will be retarded. Since water borne coatings are applied in a thin film, this allows oxygen to readily permeate through the coating. Henceforth, flash rusting is a common problem.
It usually occurs when there is high humidity, low temperatures, high wet film thickness, another cause is low coverage over a higher blast profile.
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