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During our home inspection, the inspector mentioned that the gas meter wasn't painted and could be subject to rusting later but he didn't elaborate on what paint to use. Anyone have suggestions here?

Are there paint types specifically made for this?

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The one at my house is new and it appears to be powder-coated. I'd let the gas company fix it though.

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Gas meters will be painted at the gas-meter factory. When factories (with an institutional customer) paint things in production, they use the very best paints, which would be a 2-part LPU over 2-part epoxy primer. Or lately, powdercoating with chemicals of similar quality. (they jack the cure temperature to 400F, so they can sell it to you pre-mixed in one can, but you must oven cure it.)

You can't touch that kind of durability with any consumer-available paints.

Such paints have a very tough outer sheen that won't take paint. If you want to repaint it because you don't like the color, you would need to scuff up the paint, e.g. with a Scotchbrite pad.

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