How to Repair Holes in Metal with Milliput - Video 2 of 3

In today's video I will be showing you how to repair a small hole in a cast iron hopper - using the brilliant Milliput epoxy putty. This is the second of three videos on repairing metal.

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I'm currently repairing and renovating the cast iron gutters on my old cottage. Today's repair is to a badly rusted downpipe hopper.

For this repair I decided to use Milliput Black. Milliput is a versatile cold setting epoxy putty which adheres to and will seal or bond metals, wood, plastic, glass, tile, brick and cement.

There are five different types of Milliput - 1) Standard (yellow-grey); 2) Silver Grey; 3) Super Fine White; 4) Black; and 5) Terracotta. Each has a slightly different use, so you need to visit the Milliput website https://www.milliput.com and decide which one is most appropriate for your repair.

I decided to buy Milliput Black as it's particularly good for repairing cast iron. The putty comes in two sausage shaped tubes, and you simply cut equal lengths of each and mix them together by hand until you have an even colour.

I prepared the cast iron hopper by scraping the loose paint off with a paint scraper, removing the rust with wire wool and a wire brush attacment on my drill, and then a light spray with CT1's Multisolve Spray, to remove the debris and to degrease the surface in preparation for the Milliput. Finally, I gave the surface a light sand to abrade it and improve adhesion.

I then applied the putty - which sets in 3 hours without shrinking.

At all stages from initial mixing to final setting, Milliput responds to the use of water, so you can use water whilst applying the Milliput and to smooth it with a wet finger to obtain a perfect shape and texture for your repair. This is one of the reasons Milliput is so great, because you can get your repair to a really smooth, precise shape without sanding - in a way that you can't achieve with most other fillers.

Once set, the Milliput can be sanded, and then I then primed the section of repair with Bonda Rust Primer, and then applied a top coat of Johnstone's Stormshield Gloss, mixed to Farrow and Ball Downpipe.

So that's another hole fixed. Stay tuned for next week's video where I'll be glueing a section of gutter back together with JB Weld Epoxy adhesive.

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