My mud pan rusted mid-job on Tuesday and made a mess of my finish coat

I was smoothing out a ceiling patch in my sister's basement in Arvada when I noticed little orange flecks showing up in my compound. Turns out my stainless pan had a pinhole rust spot I never saw before. Anyone else ever get burned by a pan that looked fine but was secretly failing?

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joseph_martinez3520d ago

Pinhole rust? Man that is brutal. I would have tossed that pan across the room if I saw orange specks in my finish coat. You think stainless steel is bulletproof and then it just betrays you like that. How long had you been using that pan before it went bad? I bet it was one of those cheap ones from a big box store that looks thick but is actually junk inside. Losing a whole ceiling patch to a tiny rust spot is the kind of day that makes you want to quit and go back to working at Starbucks.

leo_lopez20d ago

Wait... you seriously scraped the whole ceiling? Dude, that's next level... I would've just patched over it and hoped nobody looked up.