Stop Rust Before It Destroys Your Gas Lines

All right, we are at my brother-in-law's house checking out his gas pipe and we're going to paint this up today. So, I usually do this. I I usually don't touch the meter, but I like the gas pipe to be painted up. And just make it look prettier. You know, you don't want this to start leaking from the outside at some point. That's really how it's going to roll is if you're not protecting it. I'm also doing this to help out little fix it. He is going to start a little gas pipe painting business summer, maybe. You know, just doing something around the neighborhood. Let's get to fixing. >> [music] >> All right, we got stuff here. That's what we're going to be working with today. Stuff. This rusty metal primer. This actually is primer that works on rusted metal. And then some of this top side marine coating paint. Marine paint I have found that works the best. This battleship gray is what you want to paint your gas pipe with. All right, it's a good color match. It looks really good. We've got some gloves. We've got some tape. We bought a couple of We got a couple little cheap paint brushes, one for each. So, you'd have a drop cloth. So, sometimes it's going into people's houses. Like his is not going into the house. It's not piped in there. It's actually going down in the ground in both places. So, you don't have to worry about getting it on the walls. But what I was thinking is right here, we just do like this. And go over there and make a cut right behind that pipe over there, too. Here, give me that. Fold that knife up and to me. Thank you. All right, now grab that down there. Or here, I can do it. And you just grab it. Open that up right through there. Perfect. Slides yours down. Okay, perfect, dude. I think that's going to be great. Um now I would just take a little bit of this and go sand all around over there. All Sand it all down a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah. Just a little bit. I would just get just try to knock some of these burrs off here. It's just kind of where the pipe's a little bit rough or something. See if anything flakes off, right? Cuz you don't want something flaking off while you're processing. See if there's bubbles or if there's anything flaking. Try that. Perfect. Yeah, good. Yeah, but all those cracks in between and get all that painted up. Okay? One other thing that this does is that painting your gas pipe like this is going to let you know if there's a leak. Because I actually found a leak on mine whenever I painted mine that I had to fix. I came back the next day and it was bubbled up and I'm like, oh, very small leak, but worth doing and finding. This right here, we're going to just paint that up, too, dude. It's a good call. Start in the back. Get all the back painted of everything. Okay, so you're done. Okay, so now what do we got to do? We've got to one, I would just set that paintbrush right there and I would put your I'd put your lid back on and we're going to have to pound that down. Hold on. Yeah, hold on. Let me get you hooked up here. Let's give you something to Let's give you a little something to hit with. Look. We're not going to have to buy a lot of primer, dude. Here, Logan. Yeah, that's a good call. Uncle Ken's got you hooked up. Yeah, you just want it to last longer, dude. Okay, make sure it's all around. Is it? It looks like it is. So, then that's going to go back in your box. Uh hold on. You want to shake that first a lot. Shake, shake, shake. It's been setting. It's been setting for probably a year. So, shake, shake, shake. And so, when you start painting this, you want to paint up here because that's the drier stuff. >> Yeah. Oh, dude, this is going to look way better. Like what's your favorite movie? Ooh, you know what? I don't know. I don't know what my favorite is. Who's the little man in the cave, hm? Uh you'll find out. After you paint that, you can paint that whole sleeve going down as well, okay? >> We don't have We We don't have too much longer. Let's just give it another We'll give it another 15 minutes. Let it dry up. And then you can start painting your side again. I'll start painting this side again. I think we go one more time over there after this and it'll be grand, dude. Step right there, yeah. There we go. Okay. >> There we go. Okay. You want to make this even better? Music. And you could bring music when you do it. Oh, yeah, dude. This is coming out looking really good, Logan. Well, I think you bring a music. I think you bring a fan. That way you can just be running this while it's doing it and I think you're going to do great, man. I think it'll go a lot quicker with a fan. Dude, Logan, man, I have to say, I'm really impressed with your with what you got rocking here, dude. I think that you can do this job no problem. And that's what me and little fix it got for you today. This is great. Big shout out to Uncle Ken for letting us come over and paint up his gas pipe. I think this was a great little project and I think it's a great start to a new little fix it business adventure. You guys are going to have to let me know what you think. I mean, 30 bucks to come over and paint your gas pipe like that. Get it all hooked up looking pretty, rust free. You have to let me know. If you guys could please like, subscribe, hit that follow button. We'd love to have you keep coming back. Thank you very much. We'll see you again real soon.