Maintenance on backyard rail

[flysugarbush]

I have a 18ft steel flat bar rail in my backyard. I spray painted the steel but it is now rusting. what should I do? Sand down the rust and paint? should I repaint it? sand it down to just the steel and leave it?

 

[JockinJLoads]

hit it more so it doesnt rust, duh

 

[flysugarbush]

I have no snow now and it rusted over the summer with the rain i think. But does any one have any real advice for me.

 

[GoldenBeaR6]

Sand. Prime. Paint. Preferably Rustoleum.

 

[eheath]

Hit it, i have a 20ft flat and its soo rusty but it still slides nicely, only the edges of the metal have to be clear, ever look close at a flat rail at a park? usually the edges are the only parts scratched because the metal bows every-so-slightly in the middle. So hit it up!

 

[flysugarbush]

yea i took a file to the edges just to take some of the rust off.

 

[quixotic]

I welded my own flat rail for my backyard and during the fall it rusted like crazy. Once the first snow came around I just took a power sander to it and got most of it cleared off. The rest that didn't came off right away when I Started hitting it.

 

[MadSteezin]

just hit it up a couple times or lightly sand it then grind it.