stored auto body panels

[Grumpy]

I'm restoring a 53 chevy pickup. I'm replacing a lot of the body panels including the entire bed. It will have a show paint job. How should I prep the new panels to keep them from rusting until I get them to the painter? I live in northern Indiana. It will be kept in the shop but we have very high humidity.

Most panels are shipped with a rust protective coating, in individual cardboard boxes, and while a good coat of extra, or additional paint , carefully applied to help potentially ,reduce moisture damage and allowed to dry too seal the surface will certainly add to the rust protection potential, but you,ll need to be careful too use a paint that will both seal and protect the parts from moisture AND not cause you problems later when you need to weld or paint that parts surface, so I would do some research before selecting any paint and I damn sure would not select any wax based protective spray.
obviously you,ll want to store parts up off the floor where it might accumulate moisture, on shelving, and in an area with good ventilation,
you might be better off placing the parts in large plastic bags sealed with duct tape, or using large tarps or plastic sheeting, sealed with duct tape along with several sheets of news paper as the news paper will tend to trap and hold minor amounts of air born moisture

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when planing any shop youll want too think about parts and tool storage issues

keep in mind your shelving heights ,and where youll place light switches and lighting, you certainly don,t want shelf's covering outlets, or switches, or lighting mounted so low shelving interferes with adequate lighting and you probably want shelves that easily have the strength to safely hold heavy parts
I know I bought about 10 of these shelves rated at 1200 lbs per shelf

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