I talk to myself while sanding and I keep telling myself why not just paint it as is, it’s a driver! Then I just keep sanding and I tell myself how it’s worth finding these spots now instead of being annoyed that I didn’t try to reduce some of them…..
It has crossed my mind. But luckily I have a buddy that runs a body shop who’s willing to paint it for me. The body work wasn’t possible due to he is a one man shop right now and doing insurance claim the most. But he can do the paint for me and at cost of material.
I don't think its boring at all. These parts of the projects is what makes them awesome at the end. All the little details that people like to skip over because they are boring and tedious. I remember doing all that and I don't want to do it again but it is nice to see someone else going through it.
Bret
Cody, makes perfect sense. Lowe's shows both styles available in my local store but I bet one or the other isn't really in stock.
Yea I’m thinking the same thing, I just hope I don’t miss something major over all. Minor misses I can probably live with, but if it’s big then it will probably drive me nuts.
Cody, I don't think you would see much difference with a 2.0 mm tip gun. That primer is like un-thinned latex so I use my green Vaper 2.3 mm gun. I bought it from Northern tool back in February 2013 when it was $39.99. It has gone up $20 since then. It's one of my gravity guns (there's an embarrassingly large collection of suction feed guns as well as a number of airbrushes).
Well I should get the Vaper 2.3 tip gun this weekend, I’ll need to do some more spraying so it’s worth the purchase.Cody, I don't think you would see much difference with a 2.0 mm tip gun. That primer is like un-thinned latex so I use my green Vaper 2.3 mm gun. I bought it from Northern tool back in February 2013 when it was $39.99. It has gone up $20 since then. It's one of my gravity guns (there's an embarrassingly large collection of suction feed guns as well as a number of airbrushes).
I always use the siphon gun for primer. Mine is set perfect. I don't mess with it.
I should check to see if the siphon gun even works. I got them from an estate sale and never tried them out.
Cody, I bought an Epson ET7700 in August 2021 and I really like it. Every previous inkjet printer failed to print in color when the cartridge got to about a year old. Because these are EcoTank models, they only require ink, not cartridges. I filled the tanks with ink in August 2015 and this is how much has been used:
My dad was familiar with the suction paint gun due to all of the painting he had to do on the drilling rigs when he was a rougneck. They had to use needle guns to descale the rigs and tanks, which I'm surprise he didn't go deaf from that needle gun and just the general noise of the rig cause ear protection wasn't a thing back then. Then they would clean the surface up with cleaner and then spray the paint. So naturally he shot the paint on the truck.
No additional agent, but it’s the same stuff my buddy uses in his collision shop for plastic parts and all. I buy my stuff from him since he know what I should use and he’s gonna be painting it soon.
So I called the rep for Upol and he explained the system 20 primer doesn’t need flex additive like the older paint lines did. The primer is chemically made for all surfaces to reduce the additional steps that the older systems had in the past.
