Thanks for the reply's
While i was at it, and as is fairly normal for this part of the world, a good time to deal with rusty bits on frame, i am no paint expert though i do understand the rigmarole attached to painting things.
with that in mind and as the paint is very expensive hereabouts, i decided on the cumbrian method of dealing with it, some will cringe but i am more interested in longevity than concours.
its an awkward silver grey colour so i will experiment with various colours of our old friend smoothrite, i have some grey,silver and black, so after rubbing the bits down with drill and brass bristled wire brush i painted the offending areas, the mix was a bit of silver a little grey and added black until it looked ok.
3 coats later its pretty damn close maybe a shade off, put it this way from a few feet away you cant tell, even has silver speckles showing.
that will keep the salt off !!
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