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#51 |
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
any updates bob? I should have some pics up in a little while, gotta find some batteries. spent more time with the gf and less time on the truck this weekend. batteries dead, will have to wait til morning.
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#52 |
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Location: Foley, Alabama
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
I can't believe what I'm reading......and to think that I have nightmares about the paint shop subsituting acrylic enamel for urathane
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#53 |
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
everyone has different goals and budgets for their trucks, just trying to do the best and share information with everyone. mine is just going to be my work truck, so why spend money on the paint, i just need one color that looks good.
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
your right, that was below the belt
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#55 |
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
that's cool jooooooe, anyway, went golfing this morning so i'm just now getting the pictures up. polished the hood a little bit last night. It looks pretty good. I didn't do a good prep on it, just pretty much took an old hood out of my dad's shed and put some paint on it. There are some deep scratches from the shoddy prep I did do. There is also some dull areas from improper wet sanding i'm guessing. All in all though, I still think you can get a nice looking paint job, and i'm not saying show quality do this to your truck that you've spent thousands of hours getting ready for paint, but for those who want their truck to be the same color and not look like bad. Also, I have no idea how this will hold up over time, but from the moparts thread, the guy with the charger says it does fine. Anyway, enough ranting, here are the pics. You can see pretty good in the second pic the dull spots I'm talking about.
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: the netherlands europe
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
i been reading those pages from the 50 dollar paintjob a while ago .
his trick in getting the paint hard in 12 hours and smooth was in the fact he thinned it quite heavely put on three see through coats and sanded the small rollertracks smooth then put on another couple and sanded again the last three coats sanded lightly and then he buffed it the paint is cheap and the rollers too but i think you get a tennisarm from all the rubbing with waterproof sandingpaper . still it was hard enough to witstand a fingernail scratch after 24 hour and yes he did use a foam roller and a foam brush and worked panel by panel so it would be smooth before drying and he was able to keep the paint on the car alone instead of in the air too . i've been thinking about trying it that way , but i used to spray paint for a living and know a thing or two about the bad places you need to put paint on the fear i have is not be able to get the paint to be smooth in the nooks and crannies using the brush or roller or even sand there after it dried , i still might use rustoleum cause its cheap and eazier to keep good (two pack goes off once you mixed it ) and the spraygun and other tools clean up whell with regulair thinner after youre done . i would stay away from spraycans its too thin a paint to get a even enough coat without drips , besides that it would be cheaper to get a can of paint and use a spraygun in the long run if youre planning on doing more paint in the future ....if you only going to do it once you might even rent borrow the paintgun the trick of getting the paint smooth without running is to have some lights hanging round the car and use the reflectiont of that light in the paint youre spraying on to see when the paint is going from orangepeel to smooth , its a verry narrow border from flowing to dripping and you need to practice it . the other things you learn from books . i can tell you theres nuttin more satisfying than watching youre work shining like its made out of glass after you roll it out of the paintbooth
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#58 |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Maine
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
dalbers- That looks great. Did you thin the paint any or did you just roll it on right out of the can? Anything special you did to the hood prepping or painting it?
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#59 |
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
I thinned it with mineral spirits til it was pretty thin. If you do it, make sure you get the high density foam roller. I didn't really do much prep, the prep I did do was not good. I don't remember what grit of sandpaper I used, but it made scratches that I didn't notice until I had a few coats of paint on. If you're going to try it, do a test to help get the kinks out. Nothing would be worse than doing your whole truck and not be happy with it.
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Aluminum slot wheels rule...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Maine
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
I was planning on trying it on my tailgate first because it's all stove to hell anyway. It looks as if my painting days are over though, its not supposed it get above 65 degrees this week. Have to try it next summer I suppose.
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#61 |
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Location: Foley, Alabama
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
dalbers, you live not too far from Dorothy and Toto don't you? I've been through that way several times on my way to Indiana.
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#62 |
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
The charger guy said he painted during the winter, but I haven't even looked what rustoleum suggests. Here are some more pics closer to sundown.
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#63 |
Aluminum slot wheels rule...
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
I've tried painting Rustoleum before when it was 50-55degrees out. It took 4 days to dry, and didn't stick worth a crap.
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#64 |
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Re: Crazy idea about painting my truck
wat i read on that 50 dollar paintjob story there where more people having that problem and it boiled down to laying the layers on too thick or using anything other than white mineral spirits .
they even used it when it rained outside and it held up pretty good after they stuck to the recepy
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i got a job again and having fun at it too idea's for the trucks and the order of things to do are taking shape and get closer to being realized , a few more months and i be able to start building for real i complete 2 of the trucks intoo running fashion one custom and one basicly stock the thirth will be sacrificed for parts |
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#65 |
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Join Date: May 2005
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I used Rustoleum tractor paint years ago on a Ford 8N years ago and the logging chains never scuffed the paint. It still holds well last I knew. After seeing that, I rattle-canned my 72 C10 (I was 15 at the time). I sprayed 4 coats I think and then a clear coat. I never had a problem with the paint. Only time it looked bad was when I hit a deer and sold it. We all do what we can afford to do. Heck - my 71 C10 is painted flat black right now just to make it one color. And yes, it was rattle canned. After the body is fixed up, then it will get something nice. Til then, rattle rattle rattle...
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