Paints and coatings applied to a hydrate 80 treated surface demonstrate amazing improvements in long-term performance. I'm now unable to sleep because there's literally NO position I can lay in that doesn't start to hurt after 10 minutes !

Traditional paints and coatings applied to rectify corrosion problem areas usually give a disappointing performance, with rust quickly reappearing.The long-term performance of Hydrate-80 has been proven to significantly increase coating life in independent tests conducted by the German TÜV organisation under conditions of VDA 621-415 (6 cycles, or 1008 hrs) which included exposure to hot salt-spray; 100% relative humidity and drying atmospheres with each cycle lasting 168 hours. It's plated with a thick layer of some slightly soft metal that didn't seem to like the Deox C it had a long bath in, but as it's hidden by the lid, I'm not sure if I'm going to paint it. Importantly for long-term protection Hydrate 80 doesn’t contain chlorine which is known to transform into corrosive hydrochloric acid in rust converter applications causing under-film blistering and destruction of paint finishes or other coating products. It's a cute little baby "Valor Minor 64" boiling stove, and apart from the dusting of surface rust on the chimney, it's in a really nice usable condition. All the enamel is either off already, or it's in the process of coming off, so that shouldn't be a factor in paint adhesion.

Once this high powered rust killer is applied and left to dry it forms a non-rubbery barrier surface ready for the base of paint layers and waxes, ensuring you get a great paint finish on any repair work you carry out. Hydrate 80 leaves a (thick) coating on the surface, yes it's meant to convert rust but then seal the surface to prevent further corrosion. In that photo, the pot on top was just me seeing how long it took to boil a litre of water (18 minutes in that thermally sub optimal shaped cafetiere if you're curious), and the disc of 10mm steel was just to see how hot a (non chimney blocking) lid would get, then it stayed there as a sort of heat spreader.The paint I've got is apparently good for 800'C, and as I've never seen the smaller diameter unpainted chimneys on the Aladdin greenhouse paraffin heaters so much as start to glow I'm assuming it's going to be somewhere south of 550/600'C, so I'm hoping it'll be fine.

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It also combines with surface moisture and oxygen, depriving the corrosion process of the conditions it requires. In my experience with Hydrate 80, rust started to come back again after 6 months, so it wasn't a durable solution for me.