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Reprinted from Engineering News-Record, February 3, 1927 This cast-iron filling is now ready for the repair gang. Corrosion caused the failure. Notice also how the wall of the generator has been eaten away. Three coats of pure red-lead, plusregular inspec tion, could have prevented this deterioration. Corrosion eats the heart of toughest steel engineers are almost unanimous in their use of this . . . dooms the sturdiest metal equipment, protective paint. This fact was proved by a ques tionnaire sent to representative engineers in all Cjuard against this threat hy three-coat branches of the profession. painting with pure red-lead - - - - Two hundred and six engineers answered the questionnaire. And 179 of them (87 per cent) said they use, specify or recommend pure red-lead for HEREVER metal is exposed to air and metal protection. Wmoisture -- there rust lays a destroying There is no better red-lead than Dutch Boy red- hand. Every year metal equipment pays a healveyad. You can get it in paste or liquid form. The corrosion toll. liquid comes in the natural orange-red for next-to- All steel and iron work is constantly running metal coats, and also in greens, browns and black this deadly corrosion risk. Its life depends on its ability to resist corrosion. Bridges, cranes, struc tural steel, machinery--all metal work must receive the best possible protection to insure long life and for finishing coats. The paste is obtainable in the orange-red and can be shaded to dark colors. We maintain a special technical staff to help you in the solution of your painting problems. This service. Too often failures are the result of in service is free of chacge. Write to our nearest branch. adequate metal protection. Three coats of pure red-lead form a tough, elastic film which will not crack or scale. This triple shield resists the incessant corrosive attack. Changing temperatures do not affect it. Red-lead is impervi ous to the rust-forming elements--air and moisture. --| NATIONAL YsjjP; New York, m Broadway Buffalo, 116Oak St. LEAD COMPANY Boston, 800 Albany Se. Chicago, 900 West 18th Sc. /3H53!| Cincinnati. 659 Freeman Ave. Cleveland, 820 W. Superior Are. rjy Engineers endorse red-lead St. Louie, 722 Chestnut St. San Francisco, 485 California St. at Pittsburgh, National Lead it Oil Co., of Pj ., 3 tS Fourth Ave. Pure red-lead is the accepted paint of the engineer _______ Philadelphia, John T. Lewis & Bro.;. Co., 437 Chestnut St. ing profession. Wherever there is metal to protect, DUTCH BOY RED-LEAD 0000-NLI-000017625