Originally Posted by
davei1980
For sure! I agree with you they shouldn't rust at all in the short term. That said, if they are rusting, it seems to me plastic fenders seems to be a very obvious work around ignored possibly by the OP. There may be very good reasons to stay with steel fenders too which I haven't considered....
The biggest problem the OP has is the lack of eyelets for mounting fenders. Other posters have addressed that issue with links to adapters.