Well, seeing that sand-paper is made of "Sand" and I live in a very sandy state (FL) I decided to drag my chain behind the truck on a sandy road to clean it up. 

Original condition.  Not bad but in need of a paint job to keep the rust down.

6.5 miles down and back on an old fishing road beside the swamp flats of Melbourne, Florida

Well, first signs look good.  Will know better when I clean it up and start paint it

The Florida swamps

Love that open land...

Zinc Chromate Primer

(bucket approach to painting)

Hand it up and let it drip dry.  Turns out that I recovered back a half can of primer after 5 min. 

After two days of drying a final spray coating of gray auto paint

Anchor cleaning and painting

(Last update:  15 Dec 08)

A good scraping, sanding, zinc undercoat and painting