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Stripped for paint |
watsonrx13 |
Apr 14 2007, 08:34 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,735 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Plant City, FL Member No.: 312 Region Association: South East States |
Well, I finally finished prepping the car for paint. I have a local painter that has agreed to paint my car, so to save money he requested that I strip the paint down to metal. He'll do the minor body work, primer, base-coat, clear-coat. I'm suppose to take it by tomorrow (Sunday), but I'll have wait until the front passes by.
It taken me about 40 hrs to remove all of the paint. I started after work last Thursday, all day Friday (Good friday holiday), Saturday, Sunday and today. This is the only body repair needed. It had about 1/2" of bondo at the deepest. It took me 5 hrs to strip this door. There's also some body work to be done on the rear quarter panel. After stripping I used Ospho to protect the metal, then painted a light coat of etch primer, per the painter's requirements... Here's why it's taken me so long to strip the car, I didn't have a large enough air tank to run the DA, so I strip everything with this electric hand drill with 3M purple sanding discs. For the next teener to be painted, I'm going to buy an electric DA sander.... Here's an in process shot... After spending 10 hrs today finishing the stripping I forgot to take any pictures of the completely naked teener.... I'll take pics before I drop it off at the painters.... BTW, I'm enjoying several nice Black-n-Tan beers today and tomorrow and looking forward to doing NO WORK on the teener tomorrow... -- Rob |
watsonrx13 |
May 12 2007, 05:46 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,735 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Plant City, FL Member No.: 312 Region Association: South East States |
Well, I've had a couple of very busy weeks. After the owner checked out the car, he wanted to charge me an extra 50% over the original quote. Well, this was beyond my budget, so I took the car back to my shop. I decided to repair, primer and paint the car myself. I spent the last several weeks repairing, bondoing and prepping the car. Here's the first shots after several layers of 2k primer. BTW, it takes me about 4 hours to mask the car off. 2 weeks ago I put the first layer of primer on the car. After putting on a tack coat, I began to put a more solid layer on, but the gun started spitting out the paint and dust bunnies. I immediately stopped and cleaned the gun. The paint had started to solidify in the gun. I opened the paint and began stirring the paint. When I pulled the stick out, the paint began hardening. I checked with the auto paint store and evidently the paint was bad. I was able to put enough paint down to realize that I needed to do more work. I completed the work this week and shot several layers of 2k on today. I'm planning to sand it down and see if I need more work (which I suspect I will).
Anyway, here's a shot of the car in light gray primer.... BTW, I'm enjoying several Ichiban beers.... -- Rob |
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