My bumper, got painted today Options

[Randal]

My two piece bumper was pretty beat up, so decided to see if I could paint it.

Used DuPont paint (urethane) and a good spray gun. Used single stage so it had the gloss built in.

It came out OK, without a lot of orange peel. I do plan on buffing it out after it has had a chance to fully cure.

Cooks Automotive (San Jose) did a good job matching the color with their machine, but we had to pick out the meta flake size and ended up choosing medium, which was wrong. With the paint on it is pretty easy to tell that the original color used very small flakes.

Also what happened on the last coat, on the top of the bumper, I shook the gun a bit before I shot coat 4, so the paint looked a bit blotchy, i.e., more flakes. Next time I'll know that you have to keep the metal flakes suspended, so shaking is good before each coat. There is probably a right way to do this, so all you painters speak up! Maybe the hardener was going off, I don't know.

Didn't have time to do the bottom before heading to the hill climb, but I'll bring the splitter back and finish it before Medford.

Oh yea, this was an OSJ painting exercise.

Painting is fun, just messy.