Posted by butchdavis on 07/14/16 - 6:55 AM
#5
No, it just wont work. Get another trailer for salt water use. If you try to use the old one it will soon let you down at the worst possible time.
The only way I can imagine rust proofing a painted trailer would be to COMPLETELY disassemble, acid dip the pieces to remove all paint, completely rinse and hot dip galvanize all pieces. Then reassemble using only stainless steel hardware. Even then I'm not sure I would entirely trust the result.