Flash rust is like dry skin. It brushes off leaving new skin. Rust back is like the bite of the spider. It festers and keeps eating deeper.

Corrosion is like the infection that attacks you when your skin is cut or damaged.

The steel hull loomed above the two engineers who were reading some specification sheets.

Ones says, “Put the paint on thicker. That way it won’t peel off.”

The other says, “Which is easier to peel with your thumbnail, oranges or apples.”

Dust is to paint as grease is to tires.

Paint sticks to the surface when it covers the ridges and fills the valleys. Paint is like fresh air. Smog displaces fresh air when it fills the valleys. Paint can’t stick when the valleys are dirty.

Paint is to steel as skin is to humans.