[CR]Keeping a steel frame without any paint idea?

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: <Wornoutguy@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:23:44 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Keeping a steel frame without any paint idea?

I started thinking about something today while I was sanding a frame I am going to paint. In the past I have run into people who wanted to keep a steel frame bare showing everything to the world. I had tried spraying bare metal with a thin coat of Acrylic Urthane clear coat. That product is not designed to attach to bare metal and it will yellow and fail. I came up with an idea today. Gun barrels are steel and they are not painted. What if I used gun bluing to finish the metal and the owner kept it clean? Any gun nuts out there have any ideas?

Sam DiBartolomeo
Riverside CA