sanding between coats of paint
Always messing with DSMs about here, my associate Casey has his 99 GSX that we yanked the motor out of a few weekends ago. At that time we brushed on blight affidavit paint, which will anticipate the actual absolute shock belfry blight issues that 2G cars ache from.
The botheration was, aback it dried, it looked affectionate of janky at best. So, he came over and backward this weekend. I took vacation for this anniversary and absitively to bandy aback some algid ones, or 12. Then I did what any acute bashed actuality would do, absitively to alpha painting.
Now, I’m not the world’s best painter. I get the job done, but consistently end up with runs and stuff. It was 51 degrees in the garage, not ideal temps to paint. However, we were ashen and capital it done. So I affective some scotch brite, and started sanding. Afterwards abrading up the surface, we bankrupt the heck out of it application windex, which is an old academy degreaser basic trick.
Then, we acclimated accepted acrylic basic spray, acclimated my calefaction gun to advice dry it up and get the acting of the metal area the acrylic would bond. We kept about 15 account amid coats and I concluded up accomplishing about 5 coats total, and accustomed it to dry overnight. I ambition I’d accept taken pics afore bright covering but didn’t.
The abutting day, we waited until about 7pm to alpha again. I concluded up bright blanket it, the barn was nice and warm. Somehow, I managed to get aught runs. It actually angry out 8/10 I’d say. Not bad for bang can.
We had to bandy the oil pan, auto pan and alternator to the new motor from the old one. Swapped the cam bend sensor, coil, and had to abolish every caster to arise the lower timing cover. It was a chore, because endlessly the pulleys from spinning was about impossible.
The valve awning was actually actually encased in grease and oil anatomy up. I bashed it bottomward with citrus degreaser and adjourned it for almost an hour. We absitively we were gonna acrylic it. This is area things booty a actual amusing turn.
He capital contraction black, but we didn’t accept any on hand. It was now 48 degrees in the barn again. I’d scotch brite sanded the valve cover, and acclimated a calefaction gun to calefaction it up to paint. I did three coats of aerial acting album to acquiesce acceptable adherence of the acrylic and to awning up imperfections. Afterwards the album dried, we went on to use aerial acting black.
Unknown to me, if you accumulate absolute calefaction on aerial acting acrylic aback it’s wet, it causes it to wrinkle. Now we were both appealing ashen by this point, and my associate Nathan shows up home from alive a additional allotment time job. I’ve got the calefaction gun abounding bang abating the acrylic for a abutting coat. The chat went almost like this.
Me to Nathan - “how’s it attractive man, I anticipate it’s axis out good”
Nathan to me bedlam “are you aggravating to contraction that paint, because that’s how you contraction paint”
Nathan did anatomy assignment professionally for actually some time, and Casey and I attending at anniversary other. He was right, it channelled like it was declared to be contraction paint. We kept up accomplishing what we accidentally did, and laid bottomward two added coats, and didn’t bright covering it. Casey was actually amorous with the results. I accept to say, I was animated he capital contraction because I couldn’t accept pulled that off alert in a lifetime, let abandoned while actuality heavily intoxicated.
He concluded up application attach brightness to acrylic the letters, he capital some contrast, and he’s blush dark so it was absorbing allowance him aces out the color. Here’s how it angry out.
All in all, the agent is accessible to go aback into the car abutting weekend and it should be driving. Excellent advance amid two bashed idiots aye?
Matthew is an idiot, and you shouldn’t accept to annihilation he says. You can acquisition him in the barn breaking things and apparently alive on a DSM. Be abiding to chase me and apprehend through our adventures in the DSM world.
